Jump in US greenhouse gas pollution pushed global emissions higher report

"The most abrupt shift in energy and climate policy in recent memory that has occurred since Trump re-entered the White House will have profound consequences for the global climate crisis by slowing the pace of US emissions cuts by as much as half the rate achieved over the past two decades, the Rhodium Group forecast states. The US is still expected to reduce its planet-heat emissions by between 26% and 35% by 2035 compared with 2005 levels, according to the report."

"But this is well down from a 38% to 56% reduction by 2035, which Rhodium forecast just last year during Joe Biden's presidency. None of these scenarios will be sufficient to allow the US, the world's largest historic emitter of carbon pollution, to play its full part in helping the world avert a worsening climate breakdown coming from 2C (3.6F) or more in global heating."

A jump in US greenhouse gas pollution in the first half of the year pushed global emissions higher. A policy shift toward pro-fossil fuel measures under President Trump will significantly slow the pace of US emissions cuts, potentially halving the reduction rate achieved over the past two decades. US emissions are still projected to fall between 26% and 35% by 2035 versus 2005 levels, down from earlier projections of 38% to 56%. No modeled scenario meets the reductions needed to avoid 2C of warming; even a best-case path yields roughly 43% by 2040, and a worst case could see emissions rise in the late 2030s.

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