By Susan Williams | Director of Development
Thank you for making a difference in the climate crisis giving to EESI's project on Engaging with Congress on Climate Change and Resilience.
In but one example of the difference you are making, please let me tell you about a Congressional briefing and livecast that you helped make possible on a crucial topic—pathways for the United States to deeply cut greenhouse gas emissions to help solve the climate crisis.
Featuring expert legal scholars, you made possible a briefing that discussed legal ways in which the U.S. can move towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, as scientists say we need to do.
These emission cuts are critical in a warming world--you were crucial in bringing this expertise and knowledge to policymakers so that they can connect the dots and move forward with federal policy changes. This knowledge comes at a vital time as the House of Representatives bipartisan Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will be issuing a report soon.
You helped bring forward the Legal Pathways report to Congressional attention—thank you! The report outlines a myriad of recommendations as to how decarbonization legislation can be generated and implemented at a community, agency, and Congressional level, to fight climate change head on. The agriculture and transportation sectors were two main topics of discussion among the panelists at the briefing.
For example, Amy Stein, Professor of Law at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, emphasized how critical it is to change our gas-powered utility vehicles to ones that are electric or powered by biogas, a renewable energy source.
The briefing was positive and the panelists full of energy as they discussed just how beneficial decarbonization will be not just from an environmental standpoint, but both a social and economic standpoint as well.
As discussed in the lively Q&A portion of the briefing, the two fastest growing job categories in the US are solar installers and wind service technicians. Addressing climate change is not only critical for our planet, but also beneficial to our economy!
EESI has long taken the message that a healthy environment and a healthy economy go hand in hand—and you’ve been a critical part of bringing that message to decisionmakers.
Thank you again for your commitment to climate change solutions. You help make all this possible, including all our plans for 2020, a crucial year for near-term opportunities and building a toolkit for federal climate policy next year and beyond.
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