Gloria Gonzalez is the Deputy Energy Editor at POLITICO Pro.<br/><br/>She joined POLITICO in February 2021 after more than two decades writing, reporting and editing stories about energy and environmental, health care and workplace safety issues for companies including Industry Dive and Crain Communications. She has covered major events such as the UNFCCC climate talks and OPEC meetings. <br/><br/>Gonzalez is a former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and currently serves on SEJ’s audit committee and SEJ's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, which leads the organization's efforts to foster and promote greater coverage and understanding of environmental issues affecting underrepresented communities. <br/><br/>Born and raised in New York City, Gonzalez has a journalism and political science degree from Syracuse University. In her free time, she loves to play trivia and frisbee golf and river raft and
Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo credit: Cameron Smith/White House/Newscom
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House last month. Biden will address both chambers of Congress tonight as Harris makes history as the first female vice president to attend a joint speech. Cameron Smith/White House/Newscom
President Biden is expected to use his first congressional address tonight to tout how the first 100 days of his administration have yielded the most ambitious climate policy of any U.S. president.
But much of it depends on forces beyond his reach.
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Many countries have been advertising their ambitious decarbonization plans but have yet to take the aggressive action needed to put their plans in motion. However, change may be on the horizon.
A group of global leaders reaffirmed or even advanced their net zero commitments and detailed the steps they will take to achieve their long-term goals at last week’s Leaders Climate Summit. This was a framing around here is a crisis but here is a pathway to success as we deal with it, Jonathan Pershing, senior advisor to the special presidential envoy for climate at the US Department of State, said about the summit during an April 26 webinar hosted by the Society of Environmental Journalists, according to S&P Global Platts.
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