Quote:Few countries are meeting the Paris climate goals. Here are the ones that are.
Who cares? Ultimately we're responsible for our own actions.
Did it even remotely occur to you that all of the initiatives described in the article began under Obama and that Trump is ideologically opposed to all of it?
Do you understand the meaning of the word 'despite'
Reads to me that as though the majority of corporate American and most of 'Subnational leaders'....that would be States and municipalities....are working in response to climate change despite the lack of leadership from the science illiterate in the WH.
Good for us:
US climate action grows stronger despite the announcement to leave Paris Agreement
Across the country, US leaders and citizens are working to ensure the nation still fulfills its climate targets under the accord.
Across the country, businesses have doubled down on their pledges to climate action, recognizing that clean energy technologies translate to better business and more American jobs.
Today, half of all Fortune 500 companies have set climate or clean energy goals, and the clean energy economy employs more than 3.3 million Americans—a number that’s expected to double in the next ten years.
Subnational leaders, meanwhile, have stepped up their climate action: buying more renewable energy to help clean up our electric grid, setting science-based climate targets consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and enacting carbon pricing policies. In doing so, these new American leaders are signaling a deepening commitment to public health and safety
Because of these crucial investments, energy-related carbon emissions in the US fell to their lowest levels in 25 years in 2017 , which was the third consecutive year that they fell below 2005 levels.
These leaders—the vanguard of a new American energy revolution—are demonstrating their ability to help achieve US climate targets under the Paris Agreement, despite what’s happening in Washington, DC.”
