To meet the scale of the climate change crisis and recapture its role as a global climate leader, the United States will need to put forth a new ambitious and credible Nationally Determined Contribution with a target of reducing total new US greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030, charting an emissions path consist with Paris Agreement temperature targets.
Senior VP at Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Nat Keohane, leads their climate program and helps shape advocacy for environmentally effective and economically sound climate policy. He shares how this goal is attainable and what we, as citizens, can do to support these efforts.
Links:
Recapturing U.S Leadership on Climate Report – https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/documents/Recapturing%20U.S.%20Leadership%20on%20Climate.pdf
Follow Nat on Twitter – http://twitter.com/natkeohane
Environmental Defense Fund – https://www.edf.org/