Obamas klimaplan
25. juni 2013
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Her til aften dansk tid fremlagde Obama sin klimaplan ved en tale ved Georgetown University: “The question is not whether we need to act,” sagde han: “The question is whether we will have the courage to act before it’s too late.” Som sædvanligt er han sublimt veltalende, og har får faktisk på lidt under en time givet en ganske klar analyse af, hvorfor det er en god beslutning for USA at gå målrettet ind i en omstillingsøkonomi.
Selve klimaplanen blev frigivet tidligere på dagen – et 21 sider langt dokument, som kan downloades herfra. Og talens fulde transskription kan læses her.
Obamas klimaplan sætter ind på en lang række områder:
- Directs the EPA to issue draft emission rules for existing power plants by June 2014, to be finalized by June 2015.
- Asks the EPA to “work expeditiously” on finalizing rules for new power plants that the agency issued in March 2012.
- Pledges that the federal government will draw 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020.
- Sets a goal of permitting an additional 10 gigawatts of renewable energy on public lands by 2020.
- Sets a goal of putting 100 megawatts of renewable energy on federally subsidized housing by 2020.
- Creates a new, $8 billion loan guarantee program for advanced fossil fuel projects at the Department of Energy.
- Directs the EPA and the Department of Transportation to work on fuel economy standard for heavy-duty trucks, buses, and vans for after 2018.
- Sets a goal of cutting at least 3 billion tons of carbon pollution by 2030 through improvements in energy efficiency standards.
- Calls for an end to US funding for fossil fuel energy projects overseas unless they include carbon capture technology.
