Over the coming months, California Governor Jerry Brown's Administration will join with Bloomberg Philanthropies (which supports the Sierra Club) and partners to calculate the collective climate action potential of US states, cities, businesses, universities and others - thousands of which have already committed themselves to cut emissions - and submit that progress to the United Nations.
Led by California Governor Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg, America's Pledge on climate change is a new initiative to compile and quantify the actions of states, cities and businesses in the United States to drive down their greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Donald Trump was the only member of the G20 to not sign a pact to push back against climate change last weekend. Meanwhile, Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent Bloomberg has taken on a role as the United Nations' envoy for cities and climate change. "We're already halfway there".
"Today we're sending a clear message to the world that America's states, cities and businesses are moving forward with our country's commitments under the Paris Agreement - with or without Washington", said Brown in a statement.
While proponents of the Paris Accord have been up in arms since Trump announced he would pull the US out of the climate accords, the reality is that the USA exit is one of more style than substance.
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While launching a website and uniting a dozen-plus US territories are relatively small achievements, the rhetoric is likely to play big across Long Island, where funding for and commercialization of "clean energy" technologies have become socioeconomic lifelines - and environmentalists, economists and other observers lambasted Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement. The goal of the alliance is to bring states together to reduce emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 levels, in order to meet or exceed the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan, which Trump has promised to undo. The two will share the data at this year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Germany. Trump's departure from the Paris agreement may long roil the global diplomatic community, but the parties behind Bloomberg and Brown's plan hope to develop a playbook for emissions reductions that will help the US meet its climate change agreements - whether or not it is a signatory to that treaty.
Outside experts with the World Resources Institute and the Rocky Mountain Institute, two US -based non-profits, have been retained to conduct the study on current and projected emissions of "America's Pledge" affiliates.
The announcement comes as California's Democratic governor leads efforts to push back against President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, a 2015 deal made among almost 200 nations that committed each country to lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
As the Trump Administration continues to flounder on a number of issues, both Brown and Bloomberg effectively show the world that the U.S.is not ready to relinquish its climate mantle quite yet.
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