LWVUS Calls for National Action on Climate Change

5/6/22

Following a new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicating the importance of collective action by international governments, League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) CEO Virginia Kase sent a letter to members of the US Senate on behalf of 500,000 League members and supporters. In it, she urged Congress to take the following steps to address climate change:

• invest in renewable energy

• implement a plan to put a price on carbon

• address the long-term impacts climate change has on public health

Kase noted that climate change has serious financial impacts, stating “while states and local governments are working to address climate change at the community level, it is imperative that climate action also be taken at the national level.”

The League holds that “action now is critical to curb the most dramatic impacts of climate change that may occur at warming levels higher than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.”