MANILA, Philippines — Creating green jobs is key to climate action, said the US national climate advisor, as the Biden administration aims to employ a “whole-of-government approach” to tackling the climate crisis.
Gina McCarthy, the first to hold the key post in the White House, said the current US administration is working to provide incentives and send signals to the private sector to invest in opportunities that would create jobs aimed to preserve and protect the environment.
“It is not good enough to rebuild the jobs of the past,” McCarthy told foreign journalists in a briefing organized by the Foreign Press Centers.
“We have to look at where the economies of the future…
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