Although the Federal government has failed to address global warming in a meaningful way, many states and cities have taken serious steps to reduce emissions.
At the local level more than 200 cities in the U.S.—including Albuquerque and Santa Fe—have signed on to the Cities for Climate Protection to reduce their global warming emissions. If you would like to help your city join this network, please contact us.
At the state level, Governor Bill Richardson signed an Executive Order in June 2005 creating the New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group (CCAG) and set targets to reduce emissions by 10% below 2000 levels by 2020 and 75% by 2050. Scientists are now clear that we must reach these reduction targets if we are to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. The Advisory Group has been meeting over the past year to develop policy solutions that will meet those emissions reductions targets, and the final recommendations will be made in December 2006.
At the Federal level, Senators Domenici and Bingaman held a conference in April 2006 to discuss the solutions to global warming, but this effort did not yield recommendations for substantive reductions in global warming emissions. |
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