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大家下午好，对于那些可能走错房间的人，我是 John Podesta。
我将发表几分钟的讲话，然后我将回答媒体的一些问题。但首先，我想感谢坐在前排的我们出色的驻阿塞拜疆大使马克·利比（Mark Libby）。
我们有一个很大的团队。Jane Nishida 是 EPA 的同事，我们有来自 SPEC 的同事。我还要感谢巴巴耶夫部长领导的阿塞拜疆 COP 团队在 COP29 即将召开之际的辛勤工作和专业精神。
所以，今晚我想谈谈大家都在想的一个话题——美国大选。
对于我们这些致力于气候行动的人来说，上周在美国的结果显然令人非常失望，特别是因为拜登总统和哈里斯副总统为气候斗争带来了前所未有的资源和雄心。
从我们大胆的 2030 年 NDC 开始，将排放量比 2005 年的水平减少 50% 到 52%。
通过重新加入巴黎。
通过《降低通货膨胀法案》和《两党基础设施法》对气候和清洁能源进行历史上最大的投资。
总统承诺将美国的国际气候基金增加两倍，达到每年 110 亿美元。
很明显，下一届政府将试图掉头，逆转大部分进展。
当然，我敏锐地意识到美国有时会让气候制度的各方感到失望，他们经历了一种强大、参与、有效的美国领导模式，然后在美国总统大选后突然退出。
我知道，随着我们面临的危险变得越来越灾难性，这种失望更加难以容忍。
但这就是现实。明年1月，我们将任命一位总统，他与气候变化的关系被“骗局”和“化石燃料”这两个词所描述。
他发誓要废除我们的环境保护措施，并再次让美国退出《巴黎协定》。
这就是他所说的，我们应该相信他。
美国是一个民主国家。在民主国家，人民的意愿占了上风。
本届政府正在与即将上任的政府合作，以确保权力的和平有序过渡。
但我今天想告诉你们的是，虽然唐纳德·特朗普领导下的美国联邦政府可能会将气候行动放在次要位置，但遏制气候变化的工作将以承诺、热情和信念在美国继续进行。
正如拜登总统上周在玫瑰园所说，挫折是不可避免的，但放弃是不可原谅的。
这并不是我们为更清洁、更安全的地球而奋斗的终点。
事实仍然是事实。科学仍然是科学。
这场斗争比一个国家的一次选举、一个政治周期更大。这场斗争的规模更大。
因为世界上每个国家/地区都面临着气候危机所定义的一年。
7 月 22日是有记录以来最热的一天。生活在一个迅速变暖的星球上的后果就在我们身边，而不仅仅是珊瑚礁坍塌和冰盖融化。
它对人们的生活产生了毁灭性的影响。今年秋天，飓风海伦和米尔顿猛烈袭击美国东南部，造成数百人死亡，并切断社区的电力和供水数周。
南部非洲几十年来最严重的干旱使 2000 万儿童面临营养不良甚至饥饿的风险。
野火和干旱正在肆虐亚马逊和潘塔纳尔湿地，摧毁了原住民社区，并烧毁了瑞士面积相当大的地区。
就在两周前，西班牙的灾难性洪水在一天内就倾盆而下了一年的雨量。
在亚洲，9 月，超强台风八木造成数百人死亡，并从菲律宾到缅甸造成 160 亿美元的损失。
这些都不是骗局。这是真实的。这是一个生死攸关的问题。
幸运的是，我们国家和世界各地的许多人正在努力让世界为这一新现实做好准备，并减轻气候变化带来的最具灾难性的影响。
从第一天起，拜登总统和哈里斯副总统就组建了一个气候团队，与世界各地的伙伴合作，建立强大、可持续、公平的经济。
我们寻求为发展中经济体开放融资，以加快它们自己的清洁能源转型。
我们看到了清洁能源供应与预期需求之间的差距，并试图缩小这一差距。
我们的全球合作伙伴知道，应对气候危机还可以加强他们自己的国家安全和全球安全......同时创造就业机会...新行业...和新的机会。
四年来，美国一直是这些努力的世界伙伴。这仍然是我们的使命。
例如，《通货膨胀削减法案》正在美国掀起一股清洁能源热潮，促进创新并将清洁能源技术的成本降低多达 25%。
这不仅有助于加快清洁能源在美国的部署，而且有助于在全球范围内加速清洁能源的部署，从而减少各地的排放。
因此，荣鼎集团发现，每减少一吨碳污染......由于 IRA 在美国减少，它将推动在美国以外减少高达 2.9 吨的减量。
拜登总统和哈里斯副总统领导下的历史性投资至关重要的是政府支持，但私营部门主导。
自总统上任以来，公司总共宣布了超过 4500 亿美元的新清洁能源投资。
在 COP29 上并向前迈进，私营部门必须继续发挥领导作用——对清洁能源技术进行新的和更大的投资，继续创新并建立净零经济。
我们还将继续需要美国和全球的地方行为体来带头。
在马拉喀什举行的 COP22 和特朗普总统于 2017 年决定让美国退出《巴黎协定》之后，“我们仍在”运动在美国诞生。
它现已发展成为有史以来为支持美国气候行动而组建的最广泛的联盟，拥有 5,000 多个州、企业、地方政府、部落国家、大学等。
在今年的 COP 上，我们预计会看到许多这些领导人、几个州和城市以及来自美国国会的两党小组的代表。
因为在美国，对清洁能源的支持已经成为两党的共识。你可能通过阅读报纸不知道这一点，但它已经知道了。
自《通货膨胀削减法案》通过以来，创造的新清洁能源工作岗位中有 57% 位于共和党人代表的国会选区。
这些工作岗位来自 350 多个新的清洁能源项目，总投资额为 2860 亿美元。
许多共和党人——尤其是州长——知道所有这些活动对他们的选区、州和他们的经济都是一件好事。
例如，南卡罗来纳州州长亨利·麦克马斯特（Henry McMaster）和俄克拉荷马州州长凯文·斯蒂特（Kevin Stitt）多年来一直欢迎各州的清洁能源投资。从电动汽车供应链来看...到太阳能供应链。
今年早些时候，18 名众议院共和党人写信给众议院议长迈克·约翰逊 （Mike Johnson），敦促他不要废除 IRA 的能源税收抵免。
信中说，“完全废除将造成最坏的情况，我们将花费数十亿纳税人的钱，却几乎没有得到任何回报。
正是因为《通胀削减法案》具有持久力，我才有信心美国将继续减少排放——造福我们自己的国家，也造福于世界。
清洁能源转型的经济性已经占据了主导地位。
新的发电将是清洁的。
建设下一代核能的愿望仍然存在。
农民和牧场主正在通过更高效的生物肥料、生物消化器和饲料添加剂来减少排放并提高收入。
超大规模企业仍然致力于用清洁能源为未来提供动力，包括安全可靠的核能。
汽车公司仍在投资电气化和混合动力化。
所有这些趋势都不会逆转。
我们是否面临新的阻力？绝对。
但是，我们会回到 1950 年代的能源系统吗？不可能。
而且，我们一次只有一个管理部门。
直到 1 月下旬，拜登总统和副总统哈里斯仍将留在白宫。
因此，我们来到 COP29 上，继续与我们的全球合作伙伴和其他缔约方合作。
COP 是巩固我们的进步并保持 1.5 摄氏度的关键机会......
为了加快减少所有温室气体的进展...
而且，也许最值得注意的是，加强适应和气候融资方面的全球合作。我们在这里工作，我们致力于在 COP 29 上取得成功。
在我们致力于气候的国家和城市、我们的创新者、我们的公司和我们的公民，特别是年轻人的支持下，我们能够而且将取得真正的进步，他们比大多数人都更明白气候变化构成了我们不能忽视的生存威胁。
失败或冷漠根本不是一种选择。
今天是全世界许多人纪念那些愿意付出最终代价建设一个更和平世界的人们的日子。
在美国，这是退伍军人节。这一天是为了纪念所有响应我们国家最高服务号召的人。我们不仅要对他们永远感激，而且要真正地感谢他们。
我们有责任让他们和所有关心我们星球未来的人充分利用接下来的两周，以确保我们取得成功。
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Good afternoon everyone, and for those who might have wandered into the wrong room, I’m John Podesta.
I’m going to speak for a few minutes and then I’m going to take some questions from the press. But I want to start by recognizing our wonderful Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mark Libby who is sitting up here in the front row.
We have a big team. Jane Nishida is here from EPA, we have my colleagues from SPEC. And I want to also acknowledge the hard work and the professionalism of the Azerbaijan COP team led by Minister Babayev as COP29 comes to order.
So, I want to address tonight a topic that is on everyone’s mind –the U.S. election.
For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing, particularly because of the unprecedented resources and ambition President Biden and Vice President Harris brought to the climate fight.
Starting with our bold 2030 NDC to cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels.
By rejoining Paris.
By making the largest investment in climate and clean energy in history through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The President’s commitment to quadruple international climate funds from the United States to $11 billion per year.
It’s clear that the next Administration will try to take a U turn and reverse much of this progress.
Of course, I am keenly aware of the disappointment that the United States has at times caused the parties of the climate regime, who have lived through a pattern of strong, engaged, effective U.S. leadership, followed by sudden disengagement after a U.S. presidential election.
And I know that this disappointment is more difficult to tolerate as the dangers we face grow ever more catastrophic.
But that is the reality. In January, we will inaugurate a President whose relationship to climate change is captured by the words “hoax” and “fossil fuels”.
He has vowed to dismantle our environmental safeguards— and once again withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
This is what he has said, and we should believe him.
The United States is a democracy. And in a democracy, the will of the people prevailed.
Our administration is working with the incoming Administration to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition of power.
But what I want to tell you today is that while the United States federal government under Donald Trump may put climate action on the back burner, the work to contain climate change is going to continue in the United States with commitment and passion and belief.
As President Biden said in the Rose Garden last week, setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.
This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet.
Facts are still facts. Science is still science.
This fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle, in one country. This fight is bigger still.
Because we are all living through a year defined by the climate crisis, in every country of the world.
July 22nd was the hottest day in recorded history. The consequences of living on a rapidly warming planet are all around us—and not just in collapsing coral reefs and melting ice sheets.
It’s had devastating impacts on people’s lives. This fall, Hurricanes Helene and Milton slammed into the southeastern United States, killing hundreds and cutting off power and water in communities for weeks.
The worst drought in decades in southern Africa is putting 20 million children at risk of malnutrition and even starvation.
Wildfires and drought are ravaging the Amazon and the Pantanal, destroying Indigenous communities and burning up an area the size of Switzerland.
Catastrophic floods in Spain just two weeks ago poured a year’s worth of rain in a single day.
In Asia, in September, supercharged Typhoon Yagi killed hundreds and caused $16 billion in damages from the Philippines to Myanmar.
None of this is a hoax. It is real. It’s a matter of life and death.
Fortunately, many in our country and around the world are working to prepare the world for this new reality and to mitigate the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
From Day One, President Biden and Vice President Harris built a climate team to work with partners around the world to build strong, sustainable, equitable economies.
We sought to open up finance for developing economies to accelerate their own clean energy transitions.
We saw a gap between clean energy supply and anticipated demand – and sought to close it.
And our global partners know that addressing the climate crisis also bolsters their own national security and global security… while creating jobs… new industries… and new opportunities.
The United States has been the world’s partner in these efforts for four years. That remains our mission.
For example, the Inflation Reduction Act is unleashing a clean energy boom in America that’s boosting innovation and lowering costs for clean energy technology by as much as 25%.
That helps speed deployment of clean energy not just in the U.S., but across the globe, slashing emissions everywhere.
As a result, the Rhodium Group found that for every ton of carbon pollution cut…reduced in America because of the IRA, it will drive reductions of up to 2.9 tons outside the United States.
The historic investments under President Biden and Vice President Harris have crucially been government enabled but private-sector led.
In total, just since the President took office, companies have announced more than $450 billion in new clean energy investments.
Here at COP29 and moving forward, the private sector must continue to lead – to make new and bigger investments in clean energy technologies, to continue to innovate and build a net zero economy.
And we will also continue to need subnational actors in the U.S. and globally to lead the way.
In the wake of COP22 in Marrakesh and President Trump’s decision in 2017 to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, the “We Are Still In” movement was born in the United States.
It’s now grown into the most expansive coalition ever assembled in support of U.S. climate action, with more than 5,000 states, businesses, local governments, tribal nations, universities, and more.
At this year’s COP, we expect to see representation from many of these leaders, as well as several states and cities and a bipartisan group from the U.S. Congress.
Because support for clean energy has become bipartisan in the United States. You might not know that by reading the newspapers, but it has.
57 percent of the new clean energy jobs created since the Inflation Reduction Act passed are located in Congressional districts represented by Republicans.
Those jobs come from over 350 new clean energy projects totaling $286 billion in investment.
Many Republicans—especially governors—know all this activity is a good thing for their districts, states, and for their economy.
Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Governor Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma, for example, have welcomed clean energy investments in their states for many years. From the EV supply chain…to the solar supply chain.
And earlier this year, 18 House Republicans wrote a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson urging him not to repeal the IRA’s energy tax credits.
The letter says, “a full repeal would create a worst-case scenario where we would have spent billions of taxpayer dollars and received next to nothing in return.”
It’s precisely because the IRA has staying power that I am confident that the United States will continue to reduce emissions – benefitting our own country and benefitting the world.
The economics of the clean energy transition have simply taken over.
New power generation is going to be clean.
The desire to build out next generation nuclear is still there.
Farmers and ranchers are reducing emissions and raising their incomes through more efficient and biologic fertilizers, biodigesters, and feed additives.
The hyperscalers are still committed to powering the future with clean energy, including safe, reliable nuclear energy.
The auto companies are still investing in electrification and hybridization.
All those trends are not going to be reversed.
Are we facing new headwinds? Absolutely.
But will we revert back to the energy system of the 1950s? No way.
And, we have only one administration at a time.
Until late January, President Biden and Vice President Harris will still be in the White House.
So we are here at COP29 to continue to work together with our global partners and other Parties.
The COP is a critical opportunity to cement our progress and keep 1.5 degrees alive…
To accelerate progress on reducing all greenhouse gases…
And, perhaps most notably, to strengthen global cooperation on adaptation and climate finance. We are here to work, and we are committed to a successful outcome at COP 29.
We can and will make real progress on the backs of our climate committed states and cities, our innovators, our companies and our citizens, especially young people, who understand more than most that climate change poses an existential threat that we cannot afford to ignore.
Failure or apathy is simply not an option.
Today is a day across much of the world that we remember those who were willing to pay the ultimate price to build a more peaceful world.
In the United States, it’s Veterans Day. A day to honor all those who answered our country’s highest call to service. To whom we owe not just our eternal gratitude, but truly our freedom.
We owe it to them and all people who care about the future of our planet to make the most of the next two weeks to make sure we have a successful outcome.
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