Hello there. I'm Chuck Todd and welcome to meet the press reports. During the 2020 campaign, President Biden, then candidate Biden, made a lot of climate promises.

But in the face of growing challenges brought on by soaring oil and energy prices, the Democratic president has been

forced to make some decisions that could put many of his climate goals in jeopardy, or even force

him to abandon them altogether, like an announcement in the month of April that the U.S.

will resume oil and gas leasing on federal

lands. So why the reversal? In light of inflation, an ongoing pandemic, and more significantly,

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the politics of energy have shifted and shifted quickly.

In fact, in our latest NBC News poll, an overwhelming majority, 69% of Americans, that's not a polarized percentage there, folks, say that they would be more likely to support a candidate who supports expanding domestic oil and natural gas production to keep our gas and energy prices lower.

So will the president be punished by progressives inside his party for expanding domestic oil and gas

production and cutting regulation? Or does he get rewarded by voters overall who appreciate the efforts

to lower costs? And as he is faced with this new geopolitical moment, can President Biden keep

his promise to get the United States to net zero emissions by 2050?

That remains to be seen. But some cities across the U.S. and the world have tried to take that

goal into their own hands, and they've started taking steps to be carbon neutral even sooner.

My colleague Ann Thompson took a look at two of those cities in this country, Miami and San Jose,

which are working hard to become

carbon neutral much quicker than 2050 and how they're drawing inspiration from Copenhagen, Denmark,

which is well on its way towards that goal even soon.

In increasingly conservative Florida, its most famous barrier island, is taking on climate change.

Miami Beach is very unique in the sense that we are planning to address our climate change challenges.

Chief Resilience Officer Amy Knoll says the city is a living laboratory for climate change.

We have made a decision to incrementally adapt to sea level rise, and it is just a really important priority for us.

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