Excerpt from ClimaTalk:
On April 22-23, 2021 the White House hosted a virtual summit bringing together forty world leaders with the aim to set new, firmer targets aimed at reducing carbon emissions and transitioning the global economy to a cleaner, more sustainable model. The Biden Summit was preceded by announcements from the United Kingdom and the European Union setting forth new goals that would see both reduce their emissions by 78% (on 1990 levels by 2035) and 55% (on 1990 levels by 2030), respectively.
On the first day of the summit, the Biden-Harris administration unveiled their plans to reduce United States (U.S.) emissions between 50 to 52% below 2005 levels by 2030 – a 12-14% increase of what President Obama had committed to at the 2015 Paris Agreement. Contrary to other nations, the U.S. baseline target is based on 2005, the year where the nation’s emissions peaked at over 6 gigatonnes. Following on from this announcement, U.S. became one of eight countries worldwide to publish their updated (second) Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) which outlined how they expect to meet their targets.
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