Clean Energy Community Mobilizes as Trump Rises, Supporters

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Clean Energy Community Mobilizes as Trump Rises, Supporters Embrace Project 2025

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THE ENERGY MIX - November 8, 2024 - Mitchell Beer

QUOTE: "As leaders, citizens, and climate and energy practitioners around the world absorb the prospect of a second Donald Trump term in the White House, two overlapping realities are beginning to emerge.

• The next U.S. government will be determined to reverse and defeat efforts to get climate change under control and speed up the shift to a clean energy economy.

• And the response is already taking shape—from industries and technologies that are far more advanced and entrenched than they were eight years ago, and from an international community that is determined to keep the transition going, with or without the next Trump administration at the table.

How those two forces collide will largely determine how badly the U.S. falls short of its 2030 emission reduction target under the Paris climate agreement, and how much is left of the already-diminished prospect of meeting the global goal of holding average global warming to 1.5°C.

In a detailed analysis produced months before the U.S. election, Carbon Brief calculated that a second Trump presidency would lead to an extra four billion tonnes of climate pollution by 2030, producing global climate damages worth more than US$900 billion. That estimate “is equivalent to the combined annual emissions of the EU and Japan, or the combined annual total of the world’s 140 lowest-emitting countries,” and “would negate—twice over—all of the savings from deploying wind, solar, and other clean technologies around the world over the past five years,” the UK-based climate newsletter stated. . . . . "

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