Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobsThe impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds.Should Trump retake the White House and pass the energy and environmental policies in the controversial Project 2025 document, the US’s planet-heating emissions will “significantly increase” by 2.7bn tonnes above the current trajectory by 2030, an amount comparable to the entire annual emissions of India, according to the report. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/trump-project-2025-climate
Author : Oliver Milman
Publish date : 2024-08-14 12:00:14
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