PowerUP Canada (Canadians for Climate Leadership) http://powerUPcanada.ca (*) recently circulated a letter to its members providing more details of President-elect Barack Obama’s remarkable speech to American governors last week on November 18 in which Barack announced he will move aggressively to jumpstart a new clean economy.
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_promises
_new_chapter_on_climate_change/
To quote the President-elect: “Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.”
“Washington has failed to show ... leadership. That will change when I take office. My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.”
As described by PowerUP Canada its letter, Obama has called the clean energy revolution his “number one priority.” Here are highlights of his plan:
- Green Jobs: Create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years.
- Green buildings: Make all new buildings carbon neutral, or produce zero emissions, by 2030, weatherize one million low-income homes each year for the next decade, and make new buildings 50 per cent more efficient over the next four years.
- Clean vehicles: Increase fuel economy standards by four per cent each year and put one million plug-in hybrid cars – cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon – on the road by 2015.
- Eliminate global warming emissions: Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 per cent by 2050
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