The Academy for Democratic Development taking part in the initiative of world leaders

Aleksandra Jerkov, a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy for Democratic Development (ADD), signed a letter on behalf of the organization, along with 152 world leaders, leading companies and the world’s most important organizations, to US President Joseph Biden urging him to take decisive action on the climate change and calling him to start implementing the environmental agenda.

Today in the ⁦New York Times with 100 artists, CEOs… I call for ⁦@JoeBiden⁩ to be the « climate President ». From the ⁦@EuropeanParl⁩ I have started to work with the new US Congress and administration to make the most of this opportunity https://t.co/E0YsQn0ZXs

— Pascal Canfin (@pcanfin) January 24, 2021

People who signed the letter also committed themselves to supporting him in reaching these important goals.

Among the signatories of the letter are presidents, owners and CEOs of the world’s largest companies, such as Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Jesper Brodin, CEO of IKEA, Bill Ford, CEO of Ford Motors, Ryan Gellert, CEO of Patagonia, Enrique Lores, CEO director of HP inc., as well as many others.

Today 153 world leaders from business, government and the environmental movement, including our CEO Philip Jansen, signed a letter encouraging US President @JoeBiden to take bold climate action. We must confront #ClimateCrisis together🙌https://t.co/q5L1phMgRt

— BT Group (@BTGroup) January 24, 2021

In addition to them, the initiative was signed by prominent politicians all over the globe and current and former officials, such as David Miliband, John Podesta, Ricardo Lagos and several MEPs, including Kati Piri, Pascal Canfin, Javier Lopez Fernandez and others.

President @JoeBiden has an opportunity to be remembered as the climate president. A lot of us are ready to help— check out our letter. https://t.co/xBeaE81IgL

— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) January 24, 2021

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Celebrities like actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Natalie Portman, Jane Fonda, Zoeey Deschanel and Padma Lakshmi also signed the letter.

The time for us to confront the #ClimateCrisis is now.

Today, I join world leaders from business, government, labor and the environmental movement in calling on President @JoeBiden @POTUS to be the climate leader that science demands. https://t.co/KiqrEg9f9o

— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) January 24, 2021

The letter addressed to the President of the United States of America was published in the New York Times and it attracted great media attention around the world, and the signatories formed a network that will actively cooperate in the future and work together on these and other topics.