Experts say Massachusetts' climate goals are in line with the UN's targets, but they worry we aren't on track to meet them.
Students of all ages march from City Hall Plaza to the Massachusetts State House during the Youth Climate Strike in Boston on Sep. 20, 2019. from the United Nations put its starkly: we need worldwide emissions to be at “net zero” by 2050 if we want to limit warning to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Failing to do this means we will almost certainly experience heightened ecological catastrophe and human suffering.Monday, we’re not doing too well on this goal.
But the question is whether the state is implementing the right policies to achieve the goal in time. And on that one, “the jury’s still out.”, Massachusetts committed to getting greenhouse gas emissions 50% lower than they were in 1990 by 2030, and to reach net zero by 2050. The law also sets legally binding emissions limits for certain sectors like buildings, transportation and the electrical grid, and it requires utilities to buy increasing amounts of renewable energy.
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