When it comes to climate change, why does leadership matter? And how are democracy and the issue of climate change intertwined?

In this episode of Voices for Change: Democracy and Climate Action, Hari Sreenivasan, Correspondent at The WNET Group, sits down with Jay Hakes, Author and former Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, to discuss climate policy and leadership over the years.

Hakes shares in the interview: “So we’ve known about this for a very long time. Which then raises the question, why haven’t we done more about it?”

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Voices for Change is a multimedia collaboration between the Human Impacts Institute and The WNET Group’s Preserving Democracy public media initiative.