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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Neera Tanden, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden, for a conversation on climate policy in the Biden-Harris Administration, the ClimateCorps, and practical solutions to climate change. This discussion is part of the "Climate Forward 2024: Climate at the Crossroads" conference, sponsored by USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability and CPF, in collaboration with POLITICO.

Featuring:

Neera Tanden: Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden
Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bully Pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.8	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:25.9	Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody.
0:40.3	I feel like I'm at a school. I should sound a little bit like a teacher. I am the President's
0:47.3	domestic policy advisor. We work hand in glove with the President's Climate Policy office. And I'll talk a little bit about
0:57.0	climate, but really I'm going to focus the lion's share of my remarks on the workforce,
1:04.2	not just climate core, but overall the workforce that we need to address the climate challenge and the real unique opportunity
1:12.9	we have that this administration is realizing to address the climate challenge.
1:18.9	When the president talks about climate change, he often talks about jobs, he connects the
1:23.6	two very directly. And that is the, that is, uh, that is the work of our administration
1:29.3	to really ensure that people understand that we have a climate challenge in our country,
1:34.5	but we also have a climate opportunity, which is that we can lead the world in addressing
1:41.2	the climate challenge with our investments in renewables.
1:46.8	That will create millions of jobs.
1:49.2	And we are well on our way.
1:53.6	So I'm really grateful to be here at USC for this important conference. And I really appreciated the dean's comments about really not engaging in a dispute on climate change,
2:01.6	but really how we address it.
2:03.3	And that's exactly the way we think about this
2:06.4	in the Biden-Harris administration.
2:08.6	Facts are facts, and we have to deal with them.
2:10.9	And that is why the president has made addressing
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