Proposes a novel market-based standard for manufacturing, a clean products standard (CPS), which could reduce emissions from the manufacture of these GHG-intensive products.
Highlights a path to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 within the industrial sector, focusing on four pillars of action.
Concludes there's a range of economically beneficial and technologically feasible options for reaching "net-zero" U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Makes recommendations related to federal procurement, financing solutions such as a National Infrastructure Bank, federal loan guarantees and grants, and the enactment of standards and R&D funding for net-zero construction.
Seeks to leverage the ocean’s potential in the fight against climate change by promoting offshore renewable energy, protecting blue carbon, supporting climate-ready fisheries, expanding marine protected areas, improving ocean health, and more.
CDRLaw.org offers an annotated bibliography of legal materials related to carbon dioxide removal and carbon sequestration and use.
Two 2020 reports detailing the risk of abandoned oil and gas wells becoming wards of the U.S.
Would provide incentives for agricultural producers to carry out climate stewardship practices, provide for increased reforestation across the United States, and establish the Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program.
Directs the Secretary of Treasury to work with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense to establish Clean Energy Victory Bonds, which would raise extra funds for investment in clean energy and energy efficiency deployment.
Would reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in the atmosphere by enabling federal agencies to set up a taskforce with businesses and non-profits to speed the adoption of SLCP-reducing technologies and policies.