Markey calls for more green tech to fight climate change

GREEN continued from page 20 division to create a clean, green Somerville, a division focused on weatherization and energy efficiency of existing residential buildings.”

Along with this, she said her office put $1 million into helping low-income property owners with their comprehensive home improvements.

Ballantyne ended her speech by quoting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“The world already has many of the tools required to shift away from fossil fuels and slow down climate change,” Ballantyne said. “It’s doable, but it’s not getting done. We just need the will to invest in the transition from fossil fuels. In Somerville, we have that will.”

Markey noted the historic changes in Somerville as a leader for environmental solutions and described how low-income communities across America have faced the brunt of the conse- quences of the country’s delayed action on climate change.

“We have to reduce the overall risk long-term to those who are most vulnerable in our society,” he said.

According to Markey, the first step in doing this is by creating new technologies to help reduce the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

“It turns out that the demand is massive for wind and solar, for electric vehicles and for battery storage technologies,” Markey said.

He also argued that implementing these technologies will not only give the country more sustainable ways to derive energy but will also provide jobs for those who face the largest consequences.

“Ultimately, we want 40% of all the [funding for the Green New Deal] to go into communities of color, into Native American communities and into those communities that have historically always been sacrificed,” Markey said.

Markey hopes that this action will lead to a larger global response by providing justice to even more victims of environmental racism and classism.

“It’s going to create justice for those communities that have histor- ically been most affected adversely by climate change, by environmental justice, and ultimately, it’s going to trigger a global response of climate action,” he said.

Markey wants this work in climate change reduction to

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