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Joe Biden’s national climate adviser sees AI as a ‘massive opportunity’

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Ali Zaidi is Joe Biden's top adviser on climate change.

He says the US is in a tech-agnostic race to net zero emissions as the North Star .

The biggest economic opportunity of the moment is tackling the climate crisis, he says.

The U.S. should be a partner in helping catalyze all of that progress, whatever shape it takes.

The Biden administration submitted a more ambitious plan last month of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 percent by 2035 .

The farm bill will be in front of Congress , and Congress has an opportunity to act on whether they invest in increased total factor productivity in the agricultural sector.

By 2030 , factories that are already underway will have the capacity to manufacture 10 million vehicles’ worth of batteries in the United States .

The Inflation Reduction Act is responsible for thousands of factory jobs and construction jobs across the country.

We are in a moment of economic uplift and revitalization, a manufacturing renaissance. We are at a place where we’re north of $ 9 out of every $ 10 of grant funding.