Timeline: Progress of President Obama's Climate Action Plan

The document outlines the implementation of President Obama's Climate Action Plan (CAP), focusing on three primary goals: cutting U.S. carbon pollution, preparing for climate impacts, and leading international efforts. Key achievements include the finalization of the Clean Power Plan to reduce power sector emissions by 32% by 2030, the establishment of the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, and the formation of bilateral climate agreements with China, India, and Brazil. The report details a series of executive orders, agency regulations, and budget requests aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing national infrastructure resilience.

• The Obama administration's Climate Action Plan (CAP) aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
• The Clean Power Plan, finalized on August 3, 2015, targets a 32 percent reduction in carbon emissions from existing power plants below 2005 levels by 2030.
• To improve domestic resilience, the administration established the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, which produced 35 key recommendations in November 2014.
• The U.S. entered into strategic bilateral climate agreements with three of the world's top ten emitters: China (committing to peak emissions by 2030 or earlier), India (expanding the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research), and Brazil (committing to 20 percent renewable energy in their portfolios by 2020).
• The administration implemented specific regulations to target potent greenhouse gases, including a rule to reduce hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions by 54 to 64 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2025 and a plan to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40–45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025.
• Federal government operations were targeted for emissions reductions through an executive order requiring agencies to reduce GHG emissions by at least 40 percent by 2025 from 2008 levels and increase renewable electricity generation to 30 percent.

APA

Gutin, O., & Ingargiola, B. (2015). Timeline: Progress of President Obama's Climate Action Plan. Environmental and Energy Study Institute. https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-timeline-progress-of-president-obama-climate-action-plan

Chicago

Gutin, Ori, and Brendan Ingargiola. Timeline: Progress of President Obama's Climate Action Plan. Environmental and Energy Study Institute, 2015. https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-timeline-progress-of-president-obama-climate-action-plan.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gutin2015timeline, author = {Gutin, Ori and Ingargiola, Brendan}, title = {{Timeline: Progress of President Obama's Climate Action Plan}}, institution = {Environmental and Energy Study Institute}, year = {2015}, month = aug, url = {https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-timeline-progress-of-president-obama-climate-action-plan}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }