KEY CONCEPTS
On January 20, 2021, President Biden announced that the U.S. is rejoining the Paris Agreement an international agreement designed to avert catastrophic climate change. The central goal of the agreement is to hold global average temperatures to well below 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F).
It was an amazing feat to pass the Paris Agreement, but the work ahead won’t be easy. A 1.5°C target would require a global emissions decrease of 7.6% per year from 2020 to 2030, or a decrease of 2.7% per year for the 2°C target.
Current NDCs put us on track to reach around 3.2°C by the end of the century, overshooting our 1.5°C/2°C target. But new developments like net-zero pledges and the opportunity to incorporate green initiatives into COVID-19 recovery move us closer to achieving our goal.
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Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott said it is.
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The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation s top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga., Saturday, June, 3, 2017. [ BRANDEN CAMP | AP ]
Published Jan. 26
President Joe Biden has been systematically undoing former President Donald Trumpâs policies on climate change. Case in point â Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. On Bidenâs first day, he signed paperwork to bring the United States back in.
Under the Paris agreement, about 200 nations promised to set goals to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Each nation decides for itself what its goal will be. The hope is that cumulatively, those reductions would limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: President Joe Biden has been systematically undoing former President Donald Trump’s policies on climate change. Case in point Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. On Biden’s first day, he signed paperwork to bring the United States back in.
Under the Paris agreement, about 200 nations promised to set goals to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Each nation decides for itself what its goal will be. The hope is that cumulatively, those reductions would limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, criticized Biden’s move.