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Biden has promised to cut US carbon emissions by a third by 2030!

So... considering that carbon emissions in the US have been largely unchanged for the last 8 years (both Trump's term and Obama's 2nd term)... how on earth is he going to do it?

They provided a fact sheet:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... hnologies/

What more do you want?

I don't know how achievable it is but they do specify how they believe it could be achieved (e.g. 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, efficiency upgrades and electrification in buildings, reduce carbon pollution from the transportation sector, reduce emissions from forests and agriculture and enhance carbon sinks).

I am wanting to put solar panels on the house at some point (plus battery storage) and I want to buy an electric car. Obviously if they want to achieve these goals subsidies will need to go up in the short term. I will be interested to see what they are before making a decision.

Something concrete with figures attached would be nice. That link is... pretty pants to be honest.

"The United States can reduce emissions from forests"

It can? That's news to me.

"The United States can reduce carbon pollution from the transportation sector by reducing tailpipe emissions"

Ahhh... So the plan is to reduce emissions by reducing emissions. Brilliant in its simplicity! Why has no one thought of it before?

It's meaningless dribble.

It's an aspirational goal at this point.

Let's wait and see what specific regulations and policies they propose.

On the tailpipe emissions thing, probably the first thing they will change is the regulation rollback from Trump which reduced the required efficiency improvements from 5% to 1.5%:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN21I25S

Aspirational? It won't be legally binding?

I can't believe it is legally binding.

Ah... Well that at least goes a long way to explaining Extinction Rebellion's bullshit protest in Washington earlier.