UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Sec. 101
This section states the policy that climate considerations will be an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Foreign Policy
Sec. 102
- Announces the U.S. will host a Leaders’ Climate Summit, contribute to the United Nations COP26, and reconvene the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate
- Climate considerations will be prioritized in international forums (i.e., G7 and G20)
- Directs the development of the U.S. contribution under the Paris Agreement in advance of the Leaders’ Climate Summit
- Directs the development of a climate finance plan to assist developing countries to reduce emissions
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2021 (ENS) – “Today is Climate Day at the White House, which means that today is Jobs Day at the White House,” President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday morning. “We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. And we’re talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air, and cleaner communities. We’re talking about national security and America leading the world in a clean energy future.”
Seven days into his presidency, Biden signed executive orders intended to counter U.S. contributions to the Earth’s rising temperature. Calling climate change a “maximum threat,” the President said, “In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it’s time to act.”
Jan 28, 2021 | STATESCOOP
Within an executive order signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden that calls for government to put the climate crisis at “the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security” is a directive to assess the possibility of a federal geographic mapping service that could be used to support state and local governments.
The heads of the Federal Geographic Data Committee, which include the secretary of the Interior and the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, are ordered to develop a report on how such a federal mapping service could facilitate public access to climate-related information. The geographic information systems technology, the order states, would be used to assist federal, state, local and tribal governments in their climate planning and resilience activities.
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WHAT: President Biden continued his flurry of initial executive actions by signing an Executive Order (EO) on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The Executive Order builds on the Biden Administration’s previous climate change actions, such as submitting documentation to rejoin the Paris Agreement, and lays out the President’s plans to address climate change through both foreign policy and government-wide activities within the United States. When fully implemented, the Executive Order could affect the types of purchases the Government makes and impose additional environmental responsibilities on private sector entities that do business with the Government. Given the wide range of the Executive Order, the types of affected contractors could be similarly sweeping extending beyond traditional providers of goods and services to include industries such as communications, transportation, managed services, technol
Read more about Climate change to be centre of national security, foreign policy: Biden on Business Standard. Biden on Wednesday signed a series of executive orders and took steps to address this challenge, which he identified as one of the most pressing threats of the era