Today, the US will pledge at a summit of 40 global leaders today to halve its carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. This far exceeds an Obama-era pledge in 2014 to get emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025, writes Charlotte Jee for the MIT Technology Review. The hope is that the commitment will help encourage India, China, and other major emitters to sign up to similar targets before the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, set to be held in Glasgow, UK, in November.
Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/22/1023374/the-us-has-pledged-to-halve-its-carbon-emissions-by-2030/
Image: President Joe Biden speaks in the Oval Office of the White House earlier this week
