"Analysts have estimated that 75% of the commitments that the US made at the Paris climate agreement which Donald Trump pulled the nation out of as soon as he took office can be reached entirely without federal support. It's this conviction in the power of local governance that animates Climate Cabinet, an organization focused on supporting pro-climate candidates in under-the-radar races at the state or city level."
"As an analyst, it was her job to look at all the markets in which her company wanted to build, and make sense of why they were able to make progress in some states and not others. She watched as the company built dozens of projects in Massachusetts and zero in the far sunnier state of Arizona. This was during Trump's [first term] so these two states had the same federal backdrop but their ability to actually build clean energy was vastly different, Spears said."
Local and state policymaking can deliver roughly 75% of the United States' Paris climate commitments without federal action. Climate Cabinet identifies and supports pro-climate candidates in state and city races, using data science to analyze more than 500,000 public offices and target those who can affect climate outcomes. The organization provides financial and policy support to candidates who can influence local policymaking. Caroline Spears founded the organization after observing stark differences in clean-energy project deployment between Massachusetts and Arizona, attributing the gap to state and local policy choices rather than federal conditions. Local elections and governance have large, underleveraged influence on clean energy progress.
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