A Shadow Delegation Stalks the Official U.S. Team at Climate Talks
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A Shadow Delegation Stalks the Official U.S. Team at Climate Talks
But on this issue he is very much out of sync with the country as a whole.”
According to a new report from America’s Pledge, a group led by Mr. Bloomberg
and Mr. Brown, if the institutions working to meet the Obama targets were a separate country, they would be the third-largest economy in the world after the United States and China.
Even as the Trump administration plans to roll back federal climate change policies like the Clean Power Plan, the study found, falling clean technology prices, the low price of natural gas
and local carbon-cutting efforts have already cut domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 11.5 percent between 2005 and 2015.
He and Mr. Bloomberg announced that the states, cities and businesses
that had pledged to abide by the Paris accord were on track to meet the Obama administration pledge to cut emissions at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
“There’s a debate in the United States between the denialists who pooh-pooh any thought about climate change and the catastrophic dangers it portends, and those who agree with the scientific academies of every country in the world
that we’re facing an existential threat and we have to do something about it,” Governor Brown said Saturday.
But on this issue he is very much out of sync with the country as a whole.”
According to a new report from America’s Pledge, a group led by Mr. Bloomberg
and Mr. Brown, if the institutions working to meet the Obama targets were a separate country, they would be the third-largest economy in the world after the United States and China.
Even as the Trump administration plans to roll back federal climate change policies like the Clean Power Plan, the study found, falling clean technology prices, the low price of natural gas
and local carbon-cutting efforts have already cut domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 11.5 percent between 2005 and 2015.
He and Mr. Bloomberg announced that the states, cities and businesses
that had pledged to abide by the Paris accord were on track to meet the Obama administration pledge to cut emissions at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
“There’s a debate in the United States between the denialists who pooh-pooh any thought about climate change and the catastrophic dangers it portends, and those who agree with the scientific academies of every country in the world
that we’re facing an existential threat and we have to do something about it,” Governor Brown said Saturday.