Cai Meng / China Daily
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that "2021 is a make or break year" to confront the global climate emergency. After rejoining the Paris Agreement, the Joe Biden administration must now rise to the climate challenge and commit to an ambitious and achievable 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution of reducing the US' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 to set the stage for the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in November.
The National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental group based in the US, has published an analysis, titled "The Biden Administration Must Swiftly Commit to Cutting Climate Pollution at least 50 percent by 2030", which shows that for a fraction of the United States' GDP, we can help avert a global climate crisis by building an energy system that creates jobs and drives economic growth, improves public health, supports equity priorities, and affords Americans and their communities a safer future.