The next year presents a critical opportunity for addressing the climate crisis with a concerted global effort that integrates international, national, and non-federal actions. Re-engaged federal leadership from the United States will be a critical component of this global effort. In this context, a credible and ambitious U.S. national climate target or Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) will require a plausible path for achieving new and ambitious targets. An “all-in” national climate strategy that fuses new, federally driven actions with enhanced non-federal actions will be essential to deliver U.S. emissions reductions in line with global goals. Building non-federal action into a new U.S. NDC will require rapid development of new approaches and institutional structures that meaningfully link actions into an integrated planning process across all actors.
School Authors: Allen Fawcett, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven J. Smith
Other Authors: Wei Peng, Susan Anenberg, John Bistline, Mark Budolfson, Sara M. Constantino, Kelly Crawford, Kenneth Davis, Peter DeCarlo, Hayden Hashimoto, Casey Helgeson, Xinyuan Huang, Klaus Keller, Harry Kennard, Robert Laumbach, Vijay S. Limaye, Erin Mayfield, James McFarland, Michelle Meyer, Paul Miller, Andrew Place, Nicholas Roy, Christine Schell, Noah Scovronick, Vivek Srikrishnan, Donna Vorhees, Yuanyu Xie