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The Biden administration increased the U.S. commitment on Thursday reduce global warming emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement weeks before President-elect Trump takes office.
The White House announced a new nationally determined contribution (NDC) to reduce US emissions by 61% to 66% from 2005 levels by 2035, after previously committing to cut them in half by 2030. The NDC also includes a commitment to cut methanewhich remains in the atmosphere for less time than carbon dioxide, but is more powerful at warming the atmosphere, by 35 percent.
The incoming Trump administration is likely to scrap the goal. The president-elect has falsely claimed the human cause climate change is a “hoax” and campaigned to increase fossil fuel production in a second term.
trump he withdrew the US from the Paris agreement during his first term and is likely to do the same when he takes office in January.
However, the new goals could serve as a potential model for aspiring cities and states chart your own course on the climate with little federal support in the second Trump administration.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the most climate-focused members of the Senate Democratic caucus, praised the move in a statement, calling it an opportunity for climate policy that outweighs any rollback of Trump of Biden’s policies.
“(A) strong national climate commitment lasts longer than any president’s tenure. That’s an indicator that we hope to use in the not-too-distant future to find our way back to the global negotiating table,” Markey said.
“Today, the United States is showing the world what we will work to achieve over the next ten years, whether driven by leaders in Congress to subnational and local governments and actors,” he added. “Climate change cannot wait for the right person to be in office, it will take each one of us, around the world, to fight the greatest challenge of our time.”
