Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the United Nations Working Group III Report on Climate Change

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Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the United Nations Working Group III Report on Climate Change

"Today's report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change only underscores that it's time to get to work tackling global warming. The IPCC reports released earlier this year make clear that global warming is already happening and that if we do not take steps to address it, we are likely to see increased droughts and floods, more intense hurricanes, changes in agricultural systems, increased coastal flooding due to sea level rise, and human health impacts ranging from more widespread hunger in the developing world to more deaths from heat waves in North America. Today's report shows that we have the technologies to reduce global warming pollution, such as greater efficiency, clean coal technologies that capture and store carbon dioxide, renewable energy sources, and improved agricultural practices. That's why I have proposed a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund to speed deployment of these technologies, and why I have cosponsored the "Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act," which would establish a market-based framework to ensure cost-effective emissions reductions in the coming decades."

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