Category:Climate Policy
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A Green New Deal (by another name) Moves Forward
March 23, 2021
Via Axios
Driving the news: President Biden is considering using budget reconciliation two more times this year to pass up to $3 trillion in spending aimed at core priorities, including infrastructure, climate change, education, taxes and health care, Axios' Hans Nichols and Alayna Treene report for Axios.
Why it matters: Biden campaigned on big investments in areas like EV charging, grid modernization and boosting R&D, but specifics of his proposals have yet to emerge.
And while a legislative strategy is still taking shape, using reconciliation would enable Democrats to bypass Senate filibusters.
Where it stands: Stories Monday in the New York Times and Washington Post provide some broad-brush numbers on climate and energy pieces of the much wider — and preliminary — White House plans.
Via the Washington Post...
"The infrastructure component of the proposal includes $400 billion in spending to combat climate change, including $60 billion for infrastructure related to green transit and $46 billion for climate-related research and development. The plan also would aim to make electric-vehicle charging stations available across the country." And the NYT notes...
"Documents suggest it will include nearly $1 trillion in spending on the construction of roads, bridges, rail lines, ports, electric vehicle charging stations, and improvements to the electric grid and other parts of the power sector."
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As the U.S. Congress increasingly turns its attention to infrastructure and economic recovery
- Infrastructure/clean-renewable energy/climate/transportation
- March 15, 2021
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U.S Rejoins International/Paris Climate Accord
U.S Climate Team Takes Shape
November 2020 / First-ever International Climate 'Envoy' to Join National Security Council with Presidential Cabinet-level Status
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands applaud this historic, critically important shift in the U.S. policy and vision
For years GreenPolicy360 and StratDem have advocated Climate Policy become a U.S. National/Global Security priority
New Definitions of National & Global Security
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Kerry, as former secretary of state, oversaw U.S. negotiations on Paris climate accord for Obama administration
Kerry's role as special presidential envoy for climate does not require Senate confirmation
Kerry: Paris climate deal alone 'is not enough'
Biden will name a White House climate policy coordinator next month who will "lead efforts here in the U.S. to combat the climate crisis and mobilize action to meet this existential threat."
John Kerry, tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as climate czar, said Tuesday (Nov. 22) the incoming administration would look to retake a leadership role on the international stage when it comes to fighting climate change.
"Mr. president-elect, you've put forward a bold transformative climate plan. But you've also underscored that no country alone can solve this challenge," Kerry said as Biden publicly introduced his national security team during remarks in Delaware.
"You're right, to rejoin Paris on Day 1," he added, referring to the Paris Agreement. The Trump administration formally withdrew from the multinational climate pact earlier this month.
"And you're right to recognize that Paris alone is not enough."
Biden has proposed a $2 trillion climate plan that would push the U.S. to net-zero emissions by 2050. But Kerry noted on Tuesday that the U.S., which is responsible for about 15 percent of all emissions, will have to help other countries meet similar targets - a move that presents an opportunity to boost jobs and sell U.S. technology.
"Failure is not an option. Succeeding together means tapping into the best of American ingenuity and creativity and diplomacy, from brain power to alternative energy power," Kerry said.
"No one should doubt the determination of this president [and] vice president. They shouldn't doubt the determination of a country that went to the moon, cured supposedly incurable diseases, and beat back global tyranny in World War Two. This kind of crisis demands that kind of leadership again," he added. "And President Biden will provide it."
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How the Oil Industry Played Politics With the Planet's Fate
A US presidency that is hostile to modern science — and especially earth and environmental science
"The global climate catastrophe gets short shrift, largely because powerful fossil fuel producers still have enormous political clout, following decades-long campaigns to sow doubt about whether anthropogenic emissions are really causing planetary warming."
-- Robert N. Proctor, professor of the history of science at Stanford University
- NYT, November 19, 2016
We now live in a world where ignorance of a very dangerous sort is being deliberately manufactured...
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Climate Change is the defining issue of our time and we are at a defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. -- United Nations
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- National Climate Plans
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Native Village of Gakona, AK Urging Congress and the President to Address Climate Change
- Natural resources
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- New Definitions of National Security
- New Economy Movement
- New Encyclical from Pope Francis, a Transforming Vision
- New Orleans, LA Resolution Urging Nationwide Mobilization of Renewable Energy Resources
- New York, NY "PLANYC 2030" Climate Change Initiative
- New York, NY Climate Protection Act
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- Palo Alto, CA Climate Protection Plan
- Park University, MO Climate Commitment
- Permaculture Green Practices
- Permafrost
- Permafrost Loss est
- Pittsburg, CA Approve Membership in the ICLEI
- Pittsburgh, PA In Support of the Safe Climate Act of 2007
- Planet API
- Planet Citizen Action
- Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
- Planet Citizens
- Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
- Planet Earth Perspective
- Planet Labs Doves Fly
- Planet of the Humans, a documentary film
- PlanetCitizen
- Pope Francis on the Environment
- Population Question
- Port Townsend, WA Addressing Climate Change/Global Warming
- Portland, OR and Multnomah County Global Warming Action Plan
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- Rainforest Canopy Don Perry
- Rare Earths and EV Production
- Redistricting - Opposing Gerrymandering
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Regina, Saskatchewan Green Ribbon Community Climate Change Advisory Committee
- Responding to Denial of Climate Science
- Rice University, TX Signs American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment
- Rights and Quality of Life
- Robert Kates, In Memoriam
- Roger Morris Bio
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- Salt Lake City, UT Climate Action Plan
- San Diego, CA Adding Cities for Climate Protection Campaign to City's Portfolio
- San Diego, CA Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- San Francisco, CA In Support of "SF Climate Challenge Day"
- San Francisco, CA Resolution Urging Nationwide Mobilization of Renewable Energy Resources
- San Juan County, WA Declaration on Climate Change
- San Mateo County, CA Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- Santa Cruz, CA Endorsing the Kyoto Protocol
- Santa Monica, CA Addresses Climate Change
- Santa Rosa, CA Establishing Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
- Sarasota County, FL Joining the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
- Sea-Level Rise
- Sea-Level Rise Environmental Research Letters
- Seagrass
- Seattle, WA Goal of Zero Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Seattle, WA Green Ribbon Commission on Climate Protection
- Seattle, WA Resolution Supporting Efforts to Curb Global Warming
- Seventh Generation
- Silver City, NM Resolution to Implement a Citizens Advisory Committee on Climate Change
- Siterunner
- Snohomish County, WA Regarding Climate Change and Sustainability
- Solar Power for Electric Vehicles
- Solar Power Plants in the Mojave Desert
- Sonoma County, CA Climate Protection Action Plan
- Stats - Green Research & Science
- Steven Schmidt
- Strategic Policy-Internet Online Rights
- Student Climate Strike-March 15, 2019
- Suffolk County, NY Carbon Cap Implementation Advisory Committee
- Sun Valley, ID Resolution Endorsing the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- Surviving Victory: Security Priorities
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- Tacoma, WA Creating an Office of Sustainability
- Tacoma, WA Resolution on Climate Change and Global Warming
- Taos, NM Endorsing the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- Tesla, electric cars
- Tesla, Electric Powered Cars, Open-Source Announcement by Elon Musk
- The Commons
- Threat Multiplier
- Three Biggest Threats the World Faces
- Time for a Price on Carbon
- TinyBlueGreen
- Tom Hayden-Green Politics...In Memory
- Tompkins County, NY Environmental Management Council Resolution
- Tompkins County, NY In Support of the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
- Too Hot
- Toronto, Ontario Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
- Tufts University, MA Climate Initiative
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