Tihuta Pass Wind Turbine, Romania -Image by Rsocol, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons USA As the producer of 14% of global greenhouse emissions, the USA is the second biggest contributor to Climate Change. Although China at 27.92% ranked higher in 2019, the US has historically produced far more of the cumulative emissions already in the atmosphere. The USA was also the last to sign the Paris Agreement* which seeks commitment from countries to keeping global temperatures below 2ºC above pre -industrial levels. Nevertheless great strides were being made in the US even before formal signing of the Paris Agreement in February this year. Renewable energy projects had almost doubled (46%)on the previous year and in the first six months of this year they reached a new high, adding just over 9.9 GW of onshore and offshore wind, battery storage, and utility-scale solar capacity, a 17% increase over the same period in 2020. Pre -pandemic employment in renewables i...
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