Climate change was one of a number of legislative priority issues discussed at the recent National LICA Legislative Committee meeting. Infrastructure and budget reconciliation bills include numerous provisions to reduce carbon emissions. A new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns time is growing short to address global climate change, whose impacts are being seen in more extreme weather events such as drought and heavier precipitation, and changes to agricultural practices could take decades to have an impact on carbon emissions.
The report "is a code red for humanity," the United Nations panel said. "The alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions are choking our planet & placing billions of people in danger."