Amplify: Biden Administration’s Accomplishments on Climate Resilience
The White House recently released the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), “which assesses changes in the climate, its national and regional impacts, and options for reducing present and future risk.”
Importantly, it “shows decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions even as population and GDP have grown.”
This is consistent with President Biden’s commitment to delivering on the most ambitious climate agenda in American history, including the largest-ever investment in climate resilience through the Inflation Reduction Act.
In releasing the NCA5, the Biden Administration announced $6 billion in new climate investments.
Highlights:
$3.9 billion to strengthen America’s energy grid. This investment “focuses on projects that will modernize the electric grid to reduce impacts from extreme weather and natural disasters, increase capacity and unlock renewable energy resources, mitigate faults that lead to wildfires or other system disturbances, and deploy advanced technologies such as distributed energy resources and battery systems to provide essential grid services.”
$2 billion to “support community-driven projects that deploy clean energy, strengthen climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges.”
$300 million through the Swift Current Initiative “to help communities that have been impacted by catastrophic flooding during the 2022-2023 flood season become more resilient to future flood events.”
$100 million “for water infrastructure upgrades that advance drought resilience in the West.”
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