''National security advisers tell us that climate change is a national security matter,'' Pelosi announced while taking questions from reporters at the United Nations COP26 forum on climate change in Glasgow, Scotland.
''We recognize [the military is producing more pollution than 140 other countries combined and is exempt from climate regulations] as well. [They are] a big user of fuel, there have been many initiatives over time, very successful with technology to convert from fossil fuel to other sources of fuel.''
She stated that turning to alternative fuels ''would make the biggest difference'' in the amount of pollution generated by the military.
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''That is something we are very focused on,'' she stated.
"We’re here to report on what we have done," Pelosi said, going on to refer to "a nearly trillion dollar investment in Build Back Better and bipartisan infrastructure framework" that "recognizes the interconnectedness [sic] of climate change and gender justice and enables women and girls to lead a just transition to clean energy economy of the future."
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According to a 2019 Brown University Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs report, the U.S. military is the largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases globally, producing more than 3,685 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2018.
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According to the report, the military generates more than industrialized nations like Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal, and more than U.S. steel and iron production.
The conference in Glasgow wishes to increase the average temperature by approximately 1.5 degrees to prevent massive climate catastrophes in the future.
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Pelosi announced that the Democrats' $1.75 trillion Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill currently in front of Congress, backed by President Joe Biden, will do a considerable amount to promote the climate change agenda, naming it the ''most ambitious and consequential climate and clean energy legislation of all time.''
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''Our legislation is far-reaching, ensuring that [the] future economy is greener and cleaner,'' she stated. ''That means $250 billion in clean energy tax credits to develop and deploy the latest in future generations of clean power.”
''That means over $100 billion in addition for resilience including climate-smart agriculture and nature-based climate solutions; another $100 billion toward local- and region-led climate solutions ... and over $222 billion for environmental justice.''
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The bill, decreased from its original $3.5 trillion costs, is facing opposition from some centrist Democrats in the Senate, including Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. In the 50-50 Senate, their votes are required to move the bill over the finish line with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote.
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