On National Voter Registration Day, Climate Voters Know They Are Too Hot Not To Vote

Washington, D.C. — On National Voter Registration Day, Climate Power is focused on engaging and mobilizing voters across the country who care deeply about climate action. Young voters will be critical in 2024 – and polling shows that when it comes to choosing between Kamala Harris or Donald Trump on the issue of climate action – they are mobilized by Harris’ record and plans. Across battleground states, 56% of young voters report that climate change and clean energy will be important to them when voting for president, and 62% of young voters are confident in Harris to continue our forward progress on climate and clean energy.

But it’s not just young voters – 7-in-10 likely voters say climate change is important to their choice in the presidential election, including 86% of Black voters, 72% of Latino voters, and 69% of Independent voters. 

“We just finished the hottest summer on record—and that should be all the reminder we need that it’s too hot not to vote. Voters want a president who will take climate action, and Kamala Harris has a proven climate record,” said Climate Power executive director Lori Lodes. “Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda would gut our climate progress, destroy clean energy jobs, and increase costs for working families. Today and for the next 49 days, we are educating young people and voters of color about Kamala Harris’ climate record and mobilizing them to vote for clean energy progress—because young people know they’re too hot not to vote.”  

Climate Power is working to educate and inform Americans across the country about climate action: 

• Climate Power recently launched its “Too Hot Not to Vote” campaign to engage, educate, and motivate young voters and voters of color, with a particular focus on women voters. Celebrity co-chairs, including Rosario Dawson, Bill Nye, Sophia Bush, and Jack Schlossberg, are encouraging voters to visit TooHotNotToVote.com to register and make a plan to vote for climate champions.
• In partnership with the “Too Hot Not to Vote” campaign, Bill Nye released a video highlighting the stakes of the election and two contrasting visions for the future of climate and clean energy. He encourages voters to “do something” and vote for candidates who will take climate action. 
• Climate Power Action launched two new ads as a part of a $55 million campaign with LCV Victory Fund and Future Forward designed to engage young voters around the climate stakes of this election. 
• Climate Power launched “Chainsaw,” an ad highlighting the success of the American Climate Corps, a workforce training and service program created by the Biden-Harris administration to give young people access to the skills-based training necessary for good-paying, high-quality jobs in the clean energy and climate resilience economy. The ad is part of an ongoing $3.1 million education campaign focused on young Americans.