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- November 2024
Reuters: U.S. governors pledge to press ahead on climate after Trump win
November 8, 2024
Reuters reports on how the climate community, including U.S. Climate Alliance governors, will continue progress during the incoming presidential administration.
“Democratic governors of two U.S. states pledged on Friday to keep building programs on renewable energy and curbing climate change after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory this week.
The comments are a first indication that the Democratic governors are planning to push ahead and fight on climate change.”
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“‘We are going to move forward in the United States, state by state, county by county, city by city, in continuing our tremendous dynamic growth of our clean energy economy,’ Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state told reporters.
Inslee is a founding member of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors of states and U.S. territories, which it says represents 57% of the U.S. economy.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said governors have a responsibility to a remind people in the United States and around the world that they act as ‘subnationals, irrespective of what the agenda is by the leadership in the White House.’ Her state is a big oil producer, but also produces large amounts of wind, geothermal and solar power.”
About the Alliance
Launched in 2017 by the governors of Washington, New York, and California to help fill the void left by the U.S. federal government’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Alliance has grown to include 24 governors from across the U.S. representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population. Governors in the Alliance have pledged to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent by 2025, 50-52 percent by 2030, and 61-66 percent by 2035, all below 2005 levels, and collectively achieve overall net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as practicable, and no later than 2050.
The Alliance’s states and territories continue to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect public health, and have a long record of action and results. In fact, the latest data shows that as of 2023, the Alliance has reduced its collective net greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent below 2005 levels, while increasing collective GDP by 34 percent, and is on track to meet its near-term climate goal of reducing collective greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
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