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Secretary of the Treasury Yellen Issues Remarks to Institute of International Finance
April 22, 2021
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following remarks on April 21, 2021, by Secretary Janet L. Yellen to the Institute of International Finance:

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I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the runup to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant.

Of course, we know w . . .

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