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April 22, 2021

Biden unveils sweeping climate goal — and plans to meet it even if Congress won't

That's my Green President!



President Joe Biden pledged Thursday to slash U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases in at least half by 2030 — an ambitious target that will require retooling the world's largest economy in an effort to put the U.S. at the forefront of the international campaign to slow climate change.

It's a goal the White House insists the U.S. can meet even if Congress rejects Biden's calls for trillions of dollars in green infrastructure spending.

The new target embodies one of Biden's top policy priorities and represents a stark shift from the Trump administration, which had dismissed the threats posed by climate change and rejected the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement as a plot to hobble the U.S. economy. In contrast, Biden has made reducing carbon dioxide from fossil fuels a core part of his $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan and called for putting the U.S. on a path to eliminating net greenhouse gas pollution by mid-century.

Thursday's announcement came ahead the White House's two-day virtual climate summit with 40 world leaders. Biden's target calls for cutting U.S. carbon dioxide output by 50 to 52 percent compared with 2005 levels — a far more aggressive goal than the one former President Barack Obama proposed half a decade ago.

In his opening remarks to the summit — which, like many pandemic-driven virtual events, were initially marred by technical difficulties with the livestream audio — Biden echoed his domestic arguments that fighting climate change would be an economic boon for the countries that embraced new technologies.

"Those that do take action and make bold investments in their people in a clean energy future will win the good jobs of tomorrow and make their economies more resilient and more competitive. So let's run that race", he said, adding later "this is a moral imperative, an economic imperative. A moment of peril but also a moment of extraordinary possibilities".
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