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  Remarks by Vice President Harris During Roundtable Discussion With Environmental and Clean Energy Leaders   Chief of Mission Residence Bangkok, Thailand   THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Ambassador Godec.  And thank you for your leadership and service to our nation and the partnership and the relationship we have with Thailand, for being here on the ground doing so much important work.  Thank you. And to the leaders who have joined us for this discussion, I thank you, and it is good to see you.  I'm looking forward to a robust discussion about so many very important and critical issues. The climate crisis is at the intersection of so many priorities.  When we think about the impact of the climate crisis, it affects our goals that are societal goals of supporting public health, sustainable livelihoods, and economic growth, in addition to just protecting this precious planet of ours. In particular, we know that the climate crisis presents a real threat to the communities who depend

  While no motive in this attack is yet clear, we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years. Gun violence continues to have a devastating and particular impact on LGBTQI+ communities across our nation and threats of violence are increasing. We saw it six years ago in Orlando, when our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting the LGBTQI+ community in American history. We continue to see it in the epidemic of violence and murder against transgender women – especially transgender women of color. And tragically, we saw it last night in this devastating attack by a gunman wielding a long rifle at an LGBTQI+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence. Yet it happens far too often. We must drive out the inequities that contribute to violence against LGBTQI+ people. We cannot and must not tolerate hate. Today, yet anothe