“Guam continues advancing its sustainability agenda despite growing federal opposition to climate initiatives, with local leaders emphasizing the island’s determination to build a resilient future even as Washington moves to dismantle programs that territories and states depend on.
The U.S. Climate Alliance released its annual report last week, highlighting progress among its 24 member states and territories, including Guam, which joined the coalition in 2023 under the Leon Guerrero-Tenorio Administration. The report shows Alliance members have cut greenhouse gas emissions 24% below 2005 levels while growing their collective economies by 34%.”
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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