NRDC President on the Hottest Year on Record: “We Must Speed the Shift from Fossil Fuels”
WASHINGTON (Jan. 12, 2024) - Last year was the hottest on record, 1.2 degrees Celsius, or 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 20th-Century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported today.
Manish Bapna, president and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) made the following statement:
“We’ve crossed a critical threshold. Nature won't negotiate. The climate crisis has changed the facts on the ground.
“We must respond with decisive action to speed the shift from fossil fuels, adapt to the consequences baked into the system and mobilize the resources to help the world’s most vulnerable people cope with cascading catastrophes they didn’t cause. Anything less is a failure to respond to the crisis unfolding before our eyes.”