White House Climate Advisor on Biden's climate agenda

In an interview with Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy addresses Biden's climate agenda

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AKIKO FUJITA: And on your point, we have seen the president say repeatedly that he wants to lead the global conversation on climate change. And yet a week out from the start of this conference, Congress still hasn't reached an agreement on two key pieces of legislation that contain the core of the president's climate agenda. How much of that agenda still remains intact?

GINA MCCARTHY: Well, I would argue really that we've moved forward very quickly to already capture the moment, to move forward on clean energy. We already have identified billions of in clean energy investments. But you're absolutely right. The president has identified a number of investments in both his infrastructure, investments that has bipartisan support.

That's going to underpin some of the work we need to do on our transmission lines, on our electric vehicles, on how we start building back in a more resilient way. But we also have a big climate package in here that the president is fully committed and discussions of continuing, they're accelerating. We are very hopeful that this will pass. And we're going to keep pushing until we get the kind of investments that match our ambition.