Carbon emissions are set to fall by historic amounts this year, but environmental advocates aren’t celebrating
“We were not on track” to keep global warming to under two degress celsius, said Rachel Kyte, a former senior World Bank and United Nations sustainability adviser who now leads The Fletcher School at Tufts University. In fact, with global climate, biodiversity and oceans negotiations delayed until 2021, the world is actually falling further off the course it set in 2015.
In his erstwhile Democratic presidential bid Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ran as the self-anointed “climate change candidate.” Yet this month he vetoed $50 million worth of spending in the state’s budget for local climate resilience efforts. Reed Schuler, Inslee’s climate adviser, told POLITICO: “I’ve transitioned overnight from doing climate policy to coronavirus response,” said.
And in low-lying Miami Beach, officials have had to put a hold on some of their plans to raise hundreds of miles of roads, install pumps to reduce strain on its stormwater system and deploy “green” infrastructure like parks with absorbent materials to bolster defenses against rising seas and flooding.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has plowed ahead with a federal rollback for vehicle fuel economy standards. Even officials who are adamantly opposed to the move, like Inslee, are too stretched to respond thoroughly, Schuler said.
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