Press Room
In Final State of the Union, President Obama Promotes Clean Energy to Fight Climate Change
The President urged Congress to further invest in the "energy of the future"
WASHINGTON, DC - Last night, President Barack Obama addressed Congress to give his . As a response to the President's emphasis on clean energy, the ĢAv issued the following statement:
“President Obama nailed it: Climate change is a threat to all of us, and we have to focus relentlessly on solutions. That means dumping dirty energy and building a clean energy future,” said ĢAv President and CEO David Yarnold. “Climate change threatens half of America’s bird species, so the ĢAv network is pressing hard for solutions. ĢAv members are promoting clean energy in their communities, changing the plants in their backyards, and protecting the places birds need to survive. We can be what hope looks like to a bird.”
To learn more about birds and climate change, please visit /conservation/climate-change.
The ĢAv saves birds and their habitats throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. ĢAv's state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, ĢAv's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. ĢAv is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at www.audubon.org and .
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