Jen Psaki : “Certainly we all want to keep gasoline prices low, but the threat of the climate crisis certainly can’t wait any longer.”

Q  Do you worry that this could impact the pledges that countries are willing to make? Will other governments get weak-kneed about going green at a time when they’re facing brewing, sort of, political crises at home over, really, skyrocketing prices of non-renewable fuel sources?

MS. PSAKI: We certainly hope not. I mean, I think what COP26 is about is to continue the conversation on the international stage, at the leader level — that has been going on below the leader level continuously, basically — about our need to work together to address the climate crisis — one of the greatest national security crises the President sees. A number of other world leaders agree on that front.

Certainly, we all want to keep gasoline prices low, but the threat of the crisis — the climate crisis — certainly can’t wait any longer.

Q  Thank you.