WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed the executive order to make the neutral carbon federal government in 2050, which aims to reduce 65% in greenhouse gas emissions that warm planets in 2030 and other car and truck fleets five years later.
The White House said the order showed how the government would “take advantage of the scale and the power of procurement to lead by giving an example in handling the climate crisis”.
Orders will reduce emissions throughout the federal operation, as part of a broad government effort to deal with climate change.
“As the only largest landowner, energy consumers and employers in this country, the federal government can catalyze private sector investment and expand the American economy and industry by transforming how we build, buy, and manage electricity, buildings and other operations relax and sustainable , ” The order said.
This directs that government buildings use 100% electricity free carbon pollution by 2030; that the US car and truck fleet became all-electricity in 2035; and a federal contract for carbon-free goods and services in 2050.
Government buildings must be carbon free in 2045, including 50% emission cuts in 2032, said Biden.
Executive action is part of the Biden commitment to support the growth of clean energy and clean technology, while accelerating US progress towards the achievement of the electricity sector free of carbon pollution on In 2035, the White House said in a statement.
Through The executive order, the government will change its portophology of O 300,000 buildings, a fleet of 600,000 cars and trucks and annual purchasing power of $ 650 billion in goods and services to achieve zero-zero emissions over the next three decades, the White House said.
“The Government of the United States will lead to provide a strong foundation for American businesses to compete globally in the economy of clean energy while creating good payments, union work at home,” said the statement.
Environmental groups in general praise His order as a positive step, although some question the 30-year frame to achieve net-zero emissions.
The command sets “thick benchmark for electricity procurement” and places “the power of a very large purchase to work advancing critical carbon-free technology,” said Lindsey Baxter Griffith , Federal Policy Director of the Clean Air Task Force, an advocacy group.
“We are pleased to see the US Federal Government, which is the largest electricity buyer in the country, focusing on electrical investment (and) that is fully decarbitingly in Indonesia.
The solution that will work throughout our grid every hour every day, “Griffith said.
But to collect Snape, a lawyer at the center of biodiversity, another environmental group, “2050 is a very weak goal for the federal government to free themselves from climate heating pollution.” Orders “ignore existing technology” and add decades to commitment by public service administration, which oversee government purchases and real estate, to move to 100% renewable energy in 2025, said Snape.
“It’s like a teenager who promises to clean their rooms in 30 years.
We need action now,” he said.
The White House said the command must make a federal agent more resilient with the effects of climate change and increase the sustainability of supply chains, reducing disorders and damage at Future in federal operations, assets and programs.
On electricity, the White House said the government would work with utilities, developers, technology companies, investors and other people to buy electricity produced from carbon sources that produce no carbon emissions, including diesel fuel and wind , For all its operations in 2030.
Moving to zero-emissions “will accelerate the progress of the American industrial capacity to supply emissions-zero vehicles and electric vehicle batteries and support and maintain good work in manufacturing, engineering and skilled -Trades, ” The White House said.