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February 26, 2021
Congressional Climate Camps
Find out more about the briefings in this series below:
Lessons Learned from Past Congresses and Current Attitudes on Climate
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is holding a Climate Camp online briefing series. We are going over the basics of the legislative process, highlighting key areas and opportunities for achieving near-term and long-term carbon reductions through policy.
This second session of the Congressional Climate Camp briefing series discussed the sectors with the highest carbon emissions, and highlighted policy mechanisms to reduce emissions in each sector—power generation, industry, buildings, transportation, and agriculture. Each of these sectors has unique challenges in reducing carbon emissions. Federal policymakers have an array of options to address these challenges through coordinated action, thereby maximizing impact across sectors.
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Agriculture
Power Generation
Buildings
Industry
Transportation
AGRICULTURE (9.9 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions)
Dr. Christina Tonitto, Ecosystem Scientist, Department of Global Development, Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Agriculture Sector Q&A
POWER GENERATION (26.9 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions)
Dr. Deepakraj Divan, Professor and Director, Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Power Generation Sector Q&A
BUILDINGS (12.3 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions)
Liz Beardsley, Senior Policy Counsel, U.S. Green Building Council
INDUSTRY (22 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions)
Dr. Julio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
TRANSPORTATION (28.2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions)
John Porcari, Managing Partner, 3P Enterprises; formerly President of U.S. Advisory Services at WSP; formerly Obama Administration Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Transportation Sector Q&A
Since transportation is relatively democratized and involves many individual owners and actors, how can the transportation sector reduce emissions?
Highlights compiled by Kimmie Skinner and Celine Yang.