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  • the US envoy for climate change, John Kerry, this week met with European leaders to deliver a clear message from Washington.

  • America is back in the fight against global warming.

  • We're back to the partners.

  • We're back to the part of the fight to get this job done.

  • But a new report out Thursday presented the challenge.

  • In stark terms, the United States must slash its greenhouse gas emissions between 57 63% below 2000 and five levels before the end of this decade, no less than that if it is to meet President Joe Biden's long term goal of zero net emissions by 2050.

  • A report from Climate Action Tracker, or C, A T, and independent scientific analysis produced by researchers concluded that in order for the United States to do its share to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the goal of the Paris climate agreement it needs to cut at least 57% of its emissions before 2030.

  • Biden pledged to bring the United States back into the Paris Accord, an agreement abandoned by the Trump Administration.

  • Biden's climate team, led by National climate adviser Gina McCarthy and climate envoy Kerry is working with all government agencies and holding meetings with utilities and car companies as it crafts its new goal.

  • And we should be responsible to future generations by making sure that this decade does what the scientists tell us it needs to do.

  • That takes a lot of hard work.

  • Then we look forward to the work.

  • The C A T report says that the Biden administration planned to Dick carbonized the U.

  • S power sector by 2030 is consistent with the Paris Agreement pathway, but it needs to strengthen plans to slash emissions in buildings and vehicles.

the US envoy for climate change, John Kerry, this week met with European leaders to deliver a clear message from Washington.

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