White House unveils strategy for 2050 net-zero goal

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

The U.S. early Monday unveiled its strategy for achieving “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — under which the country would try to eliminate or offset all of its climate pollution.

Biden repeatedly expressed a desire to put the country on track for net-zero by 2050 on the campaign trail and since taking office. The new report lays out a more specific policy pathway for getting there.

“Our investments and policies will supercharge our economy, they'll strengthen the fabric of our society, and improve quality of life,” National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters on Sunday.

The strategy comes at the start of the global COP26 climate conference, where world leaders are gathering in an attempt to make progress on global climate action.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/579344-white-house-unveils-strategy-for-2050-net-zero-goal

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Fiddling while the planets literally burns.

[jimfields33]

2. At least we're doing something

China, India and Russia will stop all our progress.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Their industries feed our demand for goods.

If we want inexpensive goods, "somebody else" will burn carbon fuels, pollute their little piece of the Earth.

We're happy that the air in Detroit or Pittsburgh is much cleaner than it used to be. People of Beijing, sorry about that.

[pandr32]

12. Exactly

An economy based on over-consumption on the bottom and greed on the top isn't going to work long term.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. The GOP will stop as much progress as they can right here. Bought and paid for by polluters.

You are correct about the other countries though. Most of their leaders aren't even showing up, so that sends an ominous signal.

[Magoo48]

13. To be more precise,

we, like most other nations, are “talking” about doing way too little way too late.

We are kicking the green can way down the road. When we talk about thirty-year spans, it’s horseshit and gunsmoke in light of the less-than-a-decade timeline given the world by the latest and best science.

In thirty years our children and grandchildren will be scrambling to adapt, and that will be just about the only alternative left to them.

Help from the top down, if any significant help comes down at all, will be meager. The only path out is global grass roots pressure and rejection of all things fossil fuel. That seems unlikely due to the billions the ff industry spends on misinformation, bent politicians, and outright lies.

[George II]

3. What would you do instead?

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Regulate the hell out of polluting industries and mandate electric vehicles where appropriate for

starters. Personally, I think we're fucked. We (as a nation) can't even wear masks, recycle, invest in non-polluting mass transit or buy energy saving products. 40 years of Limbaugh and all who adopted his "model" saying global warming/ climate change is all a hoax has left a deep stain and solidified the thinking of the knuckle draggers. Then of course there are all the countries that won't even do as much as what we've put on the table, which is inadequate.
If you are Canadian, I like Trudeau's appointment of the former Green Peace activist.

[Justice matters.]

7. A Venus-like planet Earth coming up with no liquid water left on the ground.

By 2200 or earlier.

Canada has the worst increase of greenhouse-gas emissions of the G7 since 2015.

Trudeau bought a pipeline through the rockies from the tar-sands reservoirs north of Alberta & Saskatchewan because Quebec banned them going eastward.

Good luck with that...

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Tar sands are big oil wet dream. Costs more to produce than the benefit. Environmentally a disaster

Has Trudeau done much to counter your second sentence?
Oh and good for Quebec! Just say No.

[Justice matters.]

14. (2019)Trudeau's cabinet approves Trans-Mountain $4.5B CDN pipeline (BC opposes it).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trans-mountain-trudeau-cabinet-decision-1.5180269

Also: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trans-mountain-pipeline-wherry-1.5179626

Justin Trudeau has his pipeline, again — a pipeline he owns both politically and literally.

Legal challenges will again be filed against the Trans Mountain expansion. The government of British Columbia will remain opposed to the project and committed to appealing its case to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, construction will resume. The proverbial shovels will be in the ground.

As of December 2015, 197 countries had signed up to the Paris Climate Agreement. The goal was to limit global warming to 2°C, or even 1.5°C by 2100 compared to the years 1850-1900, in the pre-industrial era.

Where are we with this great and beautiful ambition for the future of humanity and of life today? Of the 197 countries that signed the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, 188 have ratified it.

However, according to data from the rating system of the research group responsible for measuring the policy's action put in place to reduce greenhouse gases, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), it turns out that only one of the signatory countries of the Paris Climate Agreements respects its signature to date: Gambia, a West African State.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. Wasn't this announced in April?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/

[Javaman]

9. I guess 2035 was too soon, so they punted down field.

by 2050 it really won't matter much what we do, negative feedback will be well underway.

we are such fools.

[Bayard]

11. All the strategies in the world won't matter

If we get another trump-like creature in the White House.

But, I admire Biden's goal-setting.