Full Title: Accelerating America’s Pledge: Going All-In to Build a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Economy for the United States
Author(s): University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability, Rocky Mountain Institute, World Resources Institute, and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Publisher(s): Bloomberg Philanthropies
Publication Date: December 9, 2019
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Description (excerpt):
Accelerating America’s Pledge is the first analysis to take the current momentum towards climate leadership among U.S. states, cities, and businesses, and project how far that leadership, without Washington, can take the U.S. by 2030. It then layers onto those projections an analysis of a federal administration that has applied the policies developed and tested at the state and local level on a national scale. The report projects these two emissions reductions scenarios based on city, state, business, and federal adoption of ambitious climate action policies:
1. Bottom-Up: The first scenario involves a coalition of states, cities, and businesses deploying aggressive best-practice climate policies informed by the ongoing action of current climate leaders. This is projected to reduce emissions 37 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
2. All-In: The second scenario involves a reengaged federal government layering aggressive, post-2020 climate action onto the bottom-up efforts outlined in scenario one. This would put the U.S. on track to reduce emissions 49 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement, and lay the foundation for a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.