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Donkees

(31,366 posts)
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 07:48 AM Apr 2021

LIVE: April 15 Budget Committee Hearing: The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change

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There will be a Hearing of the Committee on the Budget
On: Thursday, April 15, 2021, 11:00 AM
In: Room SH-216
To consider: The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change

➡️Check back for live video of this hearing at this link:
https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/the-cost-of-inaction-on-climate-change


Witnesses

🔹Mr. David Wallace-Wells
Editor At Large, New York Magazine
Author, The Uninhabitable Earth

🔹Dr. Robert B. Litterman
Chair, Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

🔹Dr. Joseph Stiglitz
Professor Of Economics
Columbia University

🔹Mr. George R. Oliver
Chairman And CEO, Johnson Controls
Chair, Business Roundtable Energy and Environment Committee

🔹Mr. Richard J. Powell
Executive Director
ClearPath Inc.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/the-cost-of-inaction-on-climate-change

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Donkees

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1. Climate Change Will Push Millions Into Extreme Poverty
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 06:32 PM
Apr 2021


Apr 14, 2021

The Budget Committee tomorrow at 11 a.m. will hold a hearing on the cost of inaction on climate change. But it won't be Big Oil who pays the price. If we do nothing, climate change will push millions into extreme poverty, disproportionately in communities of color.
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