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| | | Here's Where Each of the Presidential Candidates Stands on Climate Change | |
| In a poll of likely Democratic voters, almost half named climate change as their highest priority for the next president. Here's what reporters for InsideClimateNews found in their extensive analyses of all the candidates' climate plans. | | |
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| Bernie Sanders Climate Profile: $16 Trillion for a Declared National Emergency | | Sanders' climate message: It's real, it's here, we caused it, and we need to shift the whole economy away from fossil fuels. To do that, he proposes investing $16.3 trillion in a 10-year mobilization 'that factors climate change into virtually every area of policy.' | | |
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| Michael Bloomberg Climate Profile: Shutting Down Coal and Focusing on What's Doable | | Bloomberg has more experience in international climate diplomacy than any other candidate with the possible exception of Joe Biden. He has also promised to "embed environmental justice into how the government conducts its work." | | |
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| Joe Biden Climate Profile: Surprising Embrace of Green New Deal | | Biden surprised some activists and pundits when his campaign's climate platform went further than many of his previous positions, embracing the Green New Deal as a 'crucial framework.' In July, Biden released a policy agenda that aims to boost the rural economy, in part by expanding a program that will pay farmers to use techniques that store carbon in the soil. | | |
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| Elizabeth Warren Climate Profile: Taking Up Mantle of 'Climate Candidate' Inslee | | After the single-issue climate change-candidate Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dropped out of the race, Warren adopted his aggressive, multipart climate action plan. Warren's plan calls for all new buildings to be zero-emissions by 2028, all electricity to be carbon-neutral by 2030, and all new passenger cars, trucks and buses to be zero emissions by 2030. | | |
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| | | Amy Klobuchar Climate Profile: Using Presidency to Restore Clean Energy Policies |
| | | Klobuchar’s proposed first 100 days: Restore the Clean Power Plan; revive fuel economy standards for vehicles; strengthen enforcement of the Clean Air Act; achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2050, and rejoin the Paris climate agreement. | | |
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| | | Pete Buttigieg Climate Profile: Making U.S. the World's Clean Tech Leader |
| | | Buttiegeg’s proposals include a carbon tax, renewable portfolio standard and investing billions in new cleantech R&D. By 2035, he envisions all new passenger vehicles being zero emissions, with help from electric vehicle tax credits of up to $10,000 per vehicle. | | |
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| | | Donald Trump Climate Profile: This President Is All About Fossil Fuels |
| | | Trump's first term has been a relentless drive for unfettered fossil fuel energy development. | | |
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