One of the things we've been trying to develop as a discipline is really a professionalization in the development of social license around these new technologies so they can scale. Can we build at the speed we need to by making sure that when a tower goes up, the community feels like they built the barn together, not like they were shortchanged?
What happens when you don't have that level of focus at the highest level with the substantial commitment of very talented people driving it? What happens when the US shows up to multilateral fora or bilateral conversations and does not prioritize setting the rules of the road for the clean energy economy?
Since the beginning of this administration we have had in the West Wing a climate headquarters. A new team. Gina McCarthy led it, now I do. We've got senior directors on my team that focus on every sector of the economy, with backgrounds in science, business, engineering, policy.
Will that climate action, that distributed climate action, continue to expand? The last thing is how good are we at building the stuff we need to build.
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