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 a fundamental truth of the 21st century, within each of our countries, and as a global

community, that our own success is bound up in others 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? Yeah, that's a really good question and an important one too.

That's Brady Dennis. He's a Washington Post reporter focused on environmental policy and public health

issues. And the reason this one matters so much, I think, is because this is an assessment

that's done by this really preeminent group of scientists from all over the world about roughly

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