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Biden’s land conservation program to rely on voluntary, local efforts Josh Lederman © Provided by NBC News
The Biden administration will rely on “locally led and voluntary” efforts to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of conserving 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, the administration said in a report released Thursday.
In his first days in office, Biden signed an executive order on tackling the climate crisis that established the 30 by 30 goal and tasked Cabinet officials with drafting a report on how to get there. Although environmental and conservation groups hailed the target as ambitious, the administration did not initially offer specifics about how it would meet that target or how conservation would be defined.
As wildfire season approaches, the Western United States remains gripped by a megadrought.
Last summer, one of us was locked inside their home in the Seattle area, not because of the pandemic, but because the air was full of smoke from fires raging hundreds of miles away in California. The other was peering through an orange afternoon haze because of those same fires thousands of miles away in Maine.
Our country has been battered by the advancing impacts of climate change fires, smoke, floods, droughts, storms and heat. These impacts are affecting our health, our homes, our jobs, our communities and our natural heritage. And they are expensive climate impacts in the U.S. cost our economy nearly $100 billion in 2020 almost double the previous year’s costs.