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Say you're the president of the United States, and you want to decarbonize the world's biggest economy by 2050. Where do you turn for a plan?
Kazowie, are there answers for you. (1/n)
Kazowie, are there answers for you. (1/n)
The National Academies this week published a report detailing near-term law and policy changes that would set the U.S. on a path to clean energy that elevates all citizens, particularly in poor or historically marginalized communities. https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/accelerating-decarbonization-in-the-united-states-technology-policy-and-societal-dimensions
This comes a month after Princeton researchers studied with great depth five pathways that would bring the U.S. economy in line with what scientists report is necessary to avoid dangerous heating.
The Net-Zero America report: https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/
The Net-Zero America report: https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/
There is a map of how the new administration can tap hundreds of individual actions across federal agencies to embed climate action in everything the government does.
This is the Climate 21 project: https://climate21.org/
This is the Climate 21 project: https://climate21.org/
Not a decarbonization program per se, but dozens of clean-energy leaders developed a database of federal or legislative actions that would create jobs and stimulate non-polluting economic growth.
This is the CLEEN initiative: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/climate-leaders-make-a-to-do-list-for-the-white-house
This is the CLEEN initiative: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/climate-leaders-make-a-to-do-list-for-the-white-house
Clean R&D is a critical factor in developing paradigm-shifting technologies, something the @TheBTI spelled out in its "quiet climate policy" report: https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/press-release-qcp
