Hi, can you do that listeners, Allison here? About a month ago, we published an episode

looking at President Biden's climate agenda. This week, we're revisiting that show after

Biden delivered his first address to the United Nations as President.

We meet this year in a moment of intermingled with great pain and extraordinary possibility.

In his remarks, Biden promised that the U.S. would do more to help vulnerable countries

battered by climate change.

In April, I announced the United States will double our public international financing

to help developing nations tackle the climate crisis. And today, I'm proud to announce

that we'll work with the Congress to double that number again, including for adaptation

efforts.

And in this fight against a changing climate, he called for global unity.

It's the fundamental truth of the 21st century within each of our countries and as a global

community that our own success is bound up in other succeeding as well.

On the show last month, I spoke to an environment reporter and a climate activist about Biden's

agenda. That conversation was the same week a major UN report had warned that humans

have pushed the climate into dangerous territory.

Now after Biden's first address to the UN and his call for unity, these conversations

from the summer feel important to revisit. So in case you missed it before, here's that

episode.

It seems to me like we unfortunately get devastating reports about the climate with some

regularity these days.

So why does this latest UN climate report matter?

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