America's Pledge

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

America's Pledge (“America's Promise”, sometimes just “The Pledge”) is a civil society alliance made up of over 2,300 actors , including B. 20 US states such as California or Maryland , 450 US municipalities , over 1,700 US companies such as Microsoft as well as indigenous groups , entrepreneurs, investors, universities and churches in the USA with a center in California. It was founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Democratic Governor of California , Jerry Brown .

The alliance wants to counter the denial of man-made global warming , especially by the incumbent US President Donald Trump , and intensified efforts in the USA to achieve the United Nations' 2-degree target . The actors are striving to achieve the climate goals formulated by the US under President Barack Obama without the support of the central government in Washington under Trump.

America's Pledge reclaims more than half of US economic power, 49% of the US population, 54% of the US gross domestic product and 35% of national greenhouse gas - emissions of its own. US President Trump does not speak for the US states . They very aggressively pursued the implementation of the US targets agreed under President Barack Obama to reduce their CO 2 emissions by 26–28% by 2025 compared to 2005. The number of coal-fired power plants has been reduced and electricity generation has been based much more on solar and wind energy .

development

With the motto "We are still in" ("We are still in", namely in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 ), it represented the USA in addition to the government delegation at COP 23 in Bonn in November 2017 , albeit without participating in the official negotiations can.

North American Climate Summit

On his initiative, in early December 2017 met in Chicago more than 50 representatives of cities and states in the US and other countries such. B. Canada and Mexico to a first North American Climate Summit ( " North American Climate Summit"), where z. B. Barack Obama was a guest speaker; here the Chicago Climate Charter was adopted, the "first international charter on climate change ".

It was also here for the fifth time in five categories, the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards 2017 awarded ( "C40 Cities Bloomberg - Charity -prices 2017," C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is an alliance of the 40 largest cities in the world for global leadership in Climate protection ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Climate Conference - America's Promise . In: Deutschlandfunk . November 11, 2017 ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b c d December 7, 2017: US climate protection: Obama takes over again . In: klimaretter.info . December 7, 2017 ( klimaretter.info [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  3. ↑ World Climate Conference - America's Promise . In: Deutschlandfunk . November 11, 2017 ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung: The USA shows three faces at the World Climate Conference - Economy - Badische Zeitung . November 13, 2017 ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Despite Trump - US civil society wants to adhere to promised climate protection . In: Deutschlandfunk . November 13, 2017 ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
  6. ^ C40: North American Climate Summit . In: C40 . ( c40.org [accessed December 11, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Global Covenant of Mayors. Retrieved December 11, 2017 (American English).
  8. ↑ At Inaugural North American Climate Summit, President Barack Obama Highlights Importance of Non-Federal Climate Actors in Endorsing America's Pledge | Americas Pledge On Climate . In: Americas Pledge On Climate . December 5, 2017 ( americaspledgeonclimate.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  9. ^ North American Climate Summit. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  10. ↑ C40: C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .