A Warning to Humanity: Bold Action Needed from the White House
For the first time on record, average global temperatures have surpassed the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Though not an indefinite breach of the limit agreed on at the 2015 Paris Agreement, the trend serves as a dire warning.
As record-breaking extreme weather events like storms, droughts and wildfires ravage communities with temperatures soaring to unprecedented levels, — and local and state governments struggle to provide sufficient support to those affected — we need clear, bold, unified action from the White House now more than ever.
Join us in demanding President Biden declare a climate emergency.
During this pivotal year, President Biden must prove that he is willing to use the power and authority granted to him by the Constitution and Congress to declare a climate emergency.
Add your name to demand the President do what’s right for our communities and declare a climate emergency now.
Why a climate emergency?
A declaration of a climate emergency by President Biden would unlock crucial executive powers to combat the crisis effectively. These powers include:
- Ending the era of fossil fuels: Phase out all existing fossil fuel and prevent new fossil fuel projects by halting crude oil exports, oil and gas drilling, and government subsidies for dirty energy.
- Building renewables at scale: Enact the President’s executive authority through the Defense Production Act (DPA) to expedite a just transition to clean energy that reduces utility costs, creates new union jobs, and builds a resilient and reliable energy system.
- Protecting people and planet: Prioritize the climate crisis as the emergency it is to protect frontline communities and the environment from the corporate influences that keep us reliant on dirty, costly energy generated from fossil fuels.
Ex-Maui lawmaker to Biden: Declare climate emergency
As President Joe Biden heads to Maui to survey the damage of the most deadly wildfire in a century, Hawaiian resident and activist Kaniela Ing is among those urging the president to declare an official “climate emergency,” unlocking additional tools for the executive branch to tackle climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Maui-Bound Biden Urged to Back Hawaiian Cases Against Big Oil, Declare Climate Emergency
As President Joe Biden prepares to visit Maui next week amid Hawaiian wildfires that have prompted a federal disaster declaration, he faces fresh calls to declare a national climate emergency and support a pair of local lawsuits against the planet-wrecking fossil fuel industry.