{"id":138089,"date":"2021-04-26T20:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=185123"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:02:41","slug":"joe-bidens-new-climate-pledge-isnt-fair-or-ambitious-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/26\/joe-bidens-new-climate-pledge-isnt-fair-or-ambitious-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden\u2019s New Climate Pledge Isn\u2019t Fair Or Ambitious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced\u00a0that the United States will cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 as part of its commitment to the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s announcement came during the administration\u2019s virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, which aimed to push climate action around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0key goal\u00a0of the summit was \u201cto keep a limit to warming of 1.5 degree Celsius within reach.\u201d A\u00a02018 special report\u00a0by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global greenhouse gas emissions need to drop by 50 percent by 2030 to keep warming below 1.5\u00a0 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden\u2019s emissions pledge will not do enough to reach this goal, according to an\u00a0analysis\u00a0by Climate Action Tracker, a scientific organization that measures governmental climate action.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/joe-bidens-new-climate-pledge-isnt-fair-or-ambitious\/\">Joe Biden\u2019s New Climate Pledge Isn\u2019t Fair Or Ambitious<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/joe-bidens-new-climate-pledge-isnt-fair-or-ambitious\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced\u00a0that the United States will cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 as part of its commitment to the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change.<br \/>\nBiden\u2019s announcement came during the administrat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2175,5605,5722,51,2963],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138090,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089\/revisions\/138090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}