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华盛顿哥伦比亚特区
2021年9月17日
 
拜登总统在主要经济体能源和气候论坛线上会议发表讲话
 
视频会议
南院礼堂（South Court Auditorium）
 
美东夏令时间上午8时33分
 
总统：很高兴见到你们大家。早上好。谢谢你，布林肯国务卿（Secretary Blinken）。还要特别感谢克里特使（Special Envoy Kerry）。约翰（John）是一位多年的朋友，而且我绝对信任他在这个问题上的领导作用。
今天，我们荣幸地召集你们大家——作为我们今年4月主持的气候问题领导人峰会（Leaders Summit on Climate）的后续。
那次峰会兑现了我对美国人民做出的承诺：美国将立即重返世界舞台并应对气候危机。
我想要表明我们处在一个拐点，而且存在一种真正的共识——一种真正的共识，即尽管气候危机构成了生存威胁，但也仍有一线希望。
气候危机也带来了实际的、了不起的经济机会，可以创造就业机会并提高全世界人民的生活水平。
我想对你们以及你们迄今为止所做的努力表示感谢——而且我要——我要告诉你们不采取行动的种种后果。但你们大家实际上都知道这些。我说这些话似乎有点冒昧。
但在过去两周，我走访了美国各地，看到了创纪录的飓风、创纪录的洪灾以及山火造成的损失和破坏。
欧洲、非洲和拉丁美洲各地继续发生气候变化。而且我们——而且你们遭受了大规模洪灾。火灾在澳大利亚、亚马逊和俄罗斯苔原各地肆虐。在西伯利亚（Siberia）——这听起来——我感到几乎难以置信——在北极圈（Arctic Circle）内气温达到了118度——118度。
政府间气候变化专门委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change）的新发现为人类发出了红色预警。而且采取行动的时间的确越来越紧迫，正如国务卿刚刚指出的，正在接近无法挽回的地步。我们的时间不多了。
因此我们必须采取行动——我们所有人。我们必须采取行动，而且我们必须现在就采取行动。
当我们在4月份集会时，我们同意在向格拉斯哥（Glasgow）第26届联合国气候变化大会（COP26）迈进时增强我们的努力。
今天，我再次召集我们大家来坦率地评估我们的进展。
我对你们已根据《巴黎气候协议》（Paris Climate Agreement）增强你们的贡献并为2030年提出了雄心目标的所有各位表示感谢。
而且由于有了你们的领导作用，总计占全球GDP一半以上的国家正在致力于采取步骤，以使我们有望实现我们共同努力将升温幅度限制在1.5摄氏度的目标。
但——但我们知道还有很多工作有待完成，而且，其实我们的职责——在我看来——变得更加迫切了。
代表主要经济体论坛（Major Economies Forum）的国家总计占全球排放总量的80%。
如果没有在座的每一个国家的充分承诺，将升温幅度限制在1.5度的目标就会在我们手中落空。而那将是一场灾难。
以下是我相信我们当前必须要做的以及我们——我们在美国这里正在推动的：我们必须带到格拉斯哥——我们必须将我们尽可能最远大的雄心带到格拉斯哥。
那些还没有这样做的人，时间已所剩无几。
对我们而言，在美国，我正在努力促使历史性的投资得到通过——以使我们的基础设施实现更具气候抗御力的现代化，并建设一个清洁能源未来，创造千百万就业机会，迎来未来的新产业时代。
作为这项努力的一部分，美国承诺到2030年将温室气体排放减少到低于2005年水平的50%至52%。
而且你们知道，我们制定了一个要在2025[2035]年以前实现无碳电力行业的目标。到2030年，我们相信，在美国销售的50%小轿车，应该是而且必须是电动车。
我们正在与欧洲联盟和其他伙伴共同为之努力的另一步骤是，发起《全球甲烷减排承诺》（Global Methane Pledge），旨在到2030年将全球的甲烷排放量比2020年至少减少30%。
这将不仅迅速减缓全球变暖速度，而且同时会带来非常重要的额外好处，如增进公众健康和提高农业产量。
我们正在——我们正在调动支持，以便帮助发展中国家一起加入，承诺采取重要步骤——承诺并抓住这个极其重要的机会
要知道，我们已经在国内迈出重大步伐，从堵漏和封闭废井和气井开始，解决这类排放，并创造有良好收入的工作。
我们认为，这一共同目标既远大又现实。我们敦促你们和我们一道，在第26届联合国气候变化大会上宣布这一承诺。
而且，要知道，我们也必须在支持发展中国家方面取得更多进展。
当时，在4月份的领导人峰会上，我宣布美国正在致力于把气候方面的融资加倍，把我们到2024年以前帮助发展中国家作出调整的努力扩大三倍。
我可以向你们保证，我们正在寻求各种途径，以便更进一步推动一年调动1000亿美元帮助发展中国家的共同目标。
下一年——我们今年的重点是建立——建立宏大目标——走向格拉斯哥。
格拉斯哥不是我们的终点站。无论我们在第26届联合国气候变化大会上作出什么承诺，我们大家都必须在格拉斯哥下定决心，在明年和整个关键的这十年不断坚定我们的雄心和我们的行动，以便让我们保持低于1.5度，保持让这个目标能够实现。
这就是为什么我认为这个论坛如此重要。它是《巴黎气候协议》（Paris Climate Agreement）中的一个重要驱动因素。要知道，它是——我们接下去必须继续发挥重要作用。
在这个关键时刻——开始——一个有决定意义的十年的开始，我希望我们——我想通过这个论坛形成一个政治势头和共识，以此推动在四个关键方面的具体行动：能源、产业、土地和海洋。
我想明确这样一点：这个论坛将不取代其他论坛，而是与它们相辅相成。
实际上，就能源和产业方面而言，我们将把我们的努力与像“清洁能源部长级会议”（Clean Energy Ministerial）和“创新使命”（Mission Innovation）这样的论坛紧密接轨——我自豪地说，这两个论坛明年都将由美国主持。
我计划将先从1月份召集部长会议起步，讨论电力、交通运输、产业和建筑业的清洁能源目标。
我们还将在明年2月召开“我们的海洋大会”（Our Ocean Conference）以前，聚焦海洋行动计划。
要知道，我计划召集一个领导人会议，以便我们对已经取得的共同进展作出评估。
最后——感谢各位的耐心——我想再次强调这个时刻的紧迫性和我们面前的巨大机会。
我期待继续为此而努力——共同努力，并听取你们计划如何为世界迫切需要的宏大气候目标作出贡献。
时间在即。时间在即。谢谢你们，承蒙各位的耐心。
现在让我请约翰·克里特使讲话。谢谢。
美东夏令时间上午8时41分

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Via TeleconferenceSouth Court Auditorium
8:33 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:  It’s good to see you all.  Good morning.  Thank you, Secretary Blinken.  And a special thanks to Special Envoy Kerry.  John has been a friend for a long time, and I have absolute trust in his leadership on this issue.
We’re honored to host all of you today as a — as a follow up to the Leaders Summit on Climate we hosted back in April.
That summit made good on a commitment that I made to the American people that the United States would return immediately to the world stage and address the climate crisis.
I wanted to show that we’re at an inflection point, and that there’s a real consensus — a real consensus that while the climate crisis poses an existential threat, there is a silver lining.
The climate crisis also presents real and incredible economic opportunities to create jobs and lift up the standard of living of people around the world.
And I want to thank you and your efforts so far that I — and I need — I need to tell you the consequences of inaction.  But you all actually know it.  It’s somewhat presumptuous for me to say this.
But over the last two weeks, I’ve traveled across the United States to see the damage and destruction from record hurricanes, record floods, and wildfires.
China continues across — excuse me — climate continues to change across Europe, Africa, and Latin America.  And we’ve — and you’ve endured massive flooding.  Fires have raged across Australia and the Amazon and the Russian tundra.  In Siberia — this sounds — I found it almost unbelievable — temperatures reached 118 degrees — 118 degrees — inside the Arctic Circle.
The finding from the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change represents a code red for humanity.  And the time to act is really narrowing, as the Secretary just pointed out, to get to — close to a point of no return.  We don’t have a lot of time.
So we have to act — all of us.  We have to act, and we have to act now.
When we met in April, we agreed to strengthen our efforts as we head to COP26 in Glasgow.
Today, I’ve called us together again to candidly assess our progress.
I’m grateful to those of you who’ve — who’ve strengthened your contributions under the Paris Climate Agreement and put forward ambitious targets for 2030.
And thanks to your leadership, countries representing more than half of the global GDP are committed to taking steps that will keep us within reach of our joint pursuit of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
But — but we know there’s still a lot of work to do, and, if anything, our job has — in my view — has grown more urgent.
The countries representing the Major Economies Forum account for 80 percent of global emissions.
Without adequate commitments from every nation in this room, the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees slips through our hands.  And that’s a disaster.
And here’s what I believe we have to do right now and what we — we’re advancing here in the United States: We have to bring to Glasgow — we have to bring to Glasgow our highest possible ambitions.
Those that have not yet done so, time is running out.
For our part, in America, I’m working to pass historic investment in — to modernize our more climate-resilient infrastructure, to build a clean energy future that creates millions of jobs and ushers in new industries of the future.
As part of this work, the United States has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 50 and 52 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030.
And, you know, we’ve set a goal that by 2025 [2035] our power sector will be with — free of carbon.  And 2030, 50 percent of cars sold in the United States, we believe, should be and must be electric vehicles.
A further step we’re working with the European Union and other partners to launch is a Global Methane Pledge to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030.
This will not only rapidly reduce the rate of global warming, but it will also produce a very valuable side benefit, like improving public health and agricultural output.
We’re — we’re mobilizing support to help developing countries that join and pledge to do something significant — pledge and seize this virtual [vital] opportunity.
You know, we’ve already taken big steps domestically to tackle these emissions and create good-paying jobs, introduced by plugging leaks and capping abandoned wells and gas wells.
We believe the collective goal is both ambitious but realistic.  And we urge you to join us in announcing this pledge at COP26.
Now, you know, we also have to make additional progress to support developing countries.
At the time, at the Leaders Summit in April, I announced the United States is working to double our climate finance, triple our support for adaptation by 2024 for developing nations.
And I can assure you that we’re looking for ways to go even further toward meeting the collective goal of mobilizing $100 billion a year from the developing world and for them [for the developing world].
The next — our emphasis this year is going to be on building the — building ambition on the — on the road to Glasgow.
Glasgow is not our final destination.  Whatever commitments we make at COP26, we must all resolve together in Glasgow to continue strengthening our ambition and our actions next year and throughout the decisive decade to keep us at one point — below 1.5 degrees and to keep that within reach.
That’s why this forum, I believe, is so important.  And it was an important driver in the Paris Climate Agreement.  You know, it was — we got to continue to play a vital role going forward.
At this crucial juncture — to start — the start of a decisive decade –- I’d like us to — I’d like to use this forum to forge a political momentum and consensus to drive concrete actions in four key spheres of energy, industry, land, the ocean.
And I want to be clear: This forum will — will complement, not substitute, for other forums.
In fact, with respect to energy and industry, we will closely align our efforts with the work of the forums like the Clean Energy Ministerial and the Mission Innovation — both of which, I’m proud to say, the United States will chair next year.
I plan to kick off these efforts by bringing together ministers in January to discuss clean energy goals in power, transport, industry, building sector.
We also want to focus on — on ocean initiatives in advance of Our Ocean Conference in — next February.
You know, I — I plan to convene a leaders-level gathering so we can take stock of the collective progress we’ve made.
In closing — and thank you for your patience — I want to again underscore both the urgency of this moment and the tremendous opportunity before us.
I look forward to continuing this work — work together and hearing how you plan to contribute to the climate ambition the world so urgently needs.
The time is now.  The time is now.  And thank you for your indulgence.
I’m now going to turn this over to Special Envoy John Kerry, but thank you.
8:41 A.M. EDT