President Elect Joe Biden (December 19, 2020): “Just like we need to be a unified nation in response to COVID-19, we need a unified national response to climate change. We need to meet the moment with the urgency it demands as you would during national emergency. And from this crisis, from these crises, I should say, we need to seize the opportunity to build back and build back better than we were before… And we will challenge everyone, everyone to step up.”
Pope Francis (2015): “Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home.”
Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris (December 19, 2020): Starting on January 20th, we will work to heed those words (Pope Francis, 2015) and come together here in our country and around the world to build and protect our common home for generations to come.”