In a final push, President Biden aims to reduce U.S. emissions by over 60% by 2035, committing to the Paris Agreement. Incoming President Trump plans to reverse these policies, favoring 'energy dominance'.
President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 per cent by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to undo much of Biden's climate work when he takes office next month. Biden said the new goal — which supersedes a previous plan to cut carbon emissions at least in half by 2030 — keeps the United States on track to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by 2050. The U.S.
is making a formal submission of the new target, known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, to the United Nations under terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, Biden said Thursday.The new goal calls for reducing net emissions by 61 per cent to 66 per cent below 2005 levels in 2035. “I’m proud that my administration is carrying out the boldest climate agenda in American history,'' Biden said in a videotaped statement. “We’re doing it by setting ambitious goals'' such as deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind and conserving at least 30 per cent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, Biden said. His administration also has set strict new standards to cut air pollution from cars, trucks and power plants and signed into law the most significant investments in climate and clean energy in U.S. history, he said. The action by the Democratic president comes just over a month before he is set to leave office. Trump has already promised to unleash a series of executive actions that will seek to undo most or all of Biden's climate agenda as the Republican president-elect pushes for “energy dominance” around the glob
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