FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Jennifer K. Falcon, jennifer@ienearth.org

Bemidji, MN (January 20, 2021) – Today, President Biden announced that the United States will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, reversing the actions of former president Donald Trump. 

The Indigenous Environmental Network provides the following statement in response: 

“The Indigenous Environmental Network welcomes the Biden Administration’s announcement that the United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement. Although the purpose of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the reduction of greenhouse gases, emissions have actually risen since 1992. 

Financial support for the fossil fuel industry has increased every year since the Paris Agreement was adopted, to the tune of 2.7 trillion dollars since 2016, with fossil fuel financing dominated by big US banks. Given this dismal history of international cooperation and the inability to reduce emissions under the carbon market-focused Kyoto Protocol, we will continue to organize against  the US relying on the false solutions of carbon pricing mechanisms that do not cut emissions at source.  Biden must take real action towards keeping fossil fuels in the ground, as well as providing support for equitable emissions reductions world-wide and just ways of building an international movement to address the climate crisis.”