Hollywood stars, senior UN officials, CEOs and other global leaders have written an open letter to Joe Biden to encourage him to go down in history as the "climate president".
"You can be remembered as the 'climate president' who saved humanity from the precipice. You can transform the world's energy systems, from fossil fuels to clean energy, creating jobs, reducing pollution and addressing economic, racial and health inequality in the process ", reads the message to the new head of the White House.
The letter appeared as a full-page ad in today's New York Times.
The signatories include actor Leonardo DiCaprio, UN ambassador against climate change, Jane Fonda, who has been arrested several times on the steps of the Capitol during protests against the climate emergency, Mark Ruffalo and Natalie Portman.
Among others, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford, United Nations Special Envoy for Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investment, Hiromichi Mizuno, and, for Italy the MEP Sandro Gozi.
The message comes in the wake of a series of actions by the new White House, the most significant of which was the re-entry of the Paris Agreement on the day of the inauguration.
"You have moved the United States in the right direction. But, as you have stated, it is simply not enough and we must do all we can," the signatories write.
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