Meeting the 2025 Target

1. 2025 TARGET
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• Our target is a 26‐28% reduction below 2005 levels in 2025, making best efforts to achieve a 28%
reduction
• This goal is ambitious and achievable, grounded in an intensive analysis of what can be done under
existing law
• Doubles our decarbonization pace and is consistent with reductions of >80% by 2050

2. • We are driving substantial reductions in all sectors and gases through existing
and new policies.
• Enhanced policies to bolster sinks through reforestation and conservation will
further contribute to reaching our 2025 goal 2
• Clean Power Plan
• Building codes
• Appliance &
equipment standards
• Other measures
• Appliance &
Equipment standards
• Building codes
• Other measures
• HFCs including SNAP
• Oil & Gas Methane
• Efficiency standards and
programs
• Other measures
• Fuel economy
standards
• Biofuels
• Other measures
• Interagency Methane Strategy
• Agricultural programs
Sector Breakdown of 2012 Emissions
EXAMPLES OF POLICIES TO ACHIEVE TARGET
ADDRESS ALL SECTORS AND GASES

3. CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THROUGH
CLEAN ENERGY
• Carbon Pollution Standards For New And Existing Power Plants
 Will cut energy‐sector CO2 emissions 30% from 2005‐levels by 2030
 Avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths, lead to 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children, and
prevent 300,000 missed work and school days
 Result in 30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030 and continuing to lower the
costs of renewable energy
• Double electricity generation from solar and wind in the U.S. again by 2020
 Builds on previous doubling from 2009 to 2012
 New target of 20 percent by 2020 renewables procurement for the Federal government
 More than 30 fold increase in solar and 3 time more wind energy
• Clean Energy Research and Development, Incentives & Finance
 Mission Innovation, doubling clean energy R&D in five years
 Clean Energy Investment Initiative catalyzed $4 billion in philanthropic investment for R&D
 ARPA‐E financing for breakthrough energy technologies
 Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit Extensions
 Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing, including for low‐income households
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4. ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICIES ALSO DRIVING
DOWN EMISSIONS
• Standards for Cars, Trucks, and Aircraft
 Fuel Economy Standards for Car and Light Trucks: Will double the efficiency of cars
and trucks by 2025, reducing over 6 Billion tons of carbon over life of program
 Fuel Economy Standards for Heavy Duty Vehicles: Finalizing post‐2018 fuel economy
standards planned for heavy‐duty vehicles, proposed standards result in 1 billion
tons of carbon reductions through 2020
 Negotiated ICAO standards for commercial aircraft resulting in 650 million tons of
global reductions between 2020 and 2040
• Comprehensive buildings sector efficiency measures
 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has completed more than 30 appliance
standards since 2009 and is on track to the goal of 3,000 MMT of cumulative
abatement through 2030.
 Through Better Buildings Challenge over 3.5 billion square feet of buildings on track
to be at least 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020.
 More than $10 billion has been committed to greater efficiency, with more than $4.5
billion invested in projects and $840 million saved since the program launched.
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5. CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BEYOND
THE ENERGY SECTOR
• Reducing Methane Emissions
 Environmental Protection Agency proposed standards for new and modified sources of
emissions from oil and gas to be finalized in the coming months
 Bureau of Land Management proposed standards for venting and flaring on public lands to be
finalized this year
 Environmental Protection agency recently announced they will regulate existing sources of oil
and gas emissions
 Environmental Protection Agency standards for landfills.
• Phasing Down HFCs
 On September 16, 2014, White House announced new executive actions and private sector
commitments to reduce cumulative global consumption of HFCs by the equivalent of 700
million metric tons of CO2e through 2025, or 1.5% of the world’s 2010 GHG emissions
 The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule in April 2015 under the Significant New
Alternatives Policy program to expand the list of climate‐friendly alternatives to HFCs.
 It also proposed a rule in 2014 to prohibit the use of certain HFCs for specific applications,
which would reduce 31 to 42 million metric tons of CO2e in 2020.
 Priority is securing a Montreal Protocol Amendment by October 2016 Meeting of the Parties
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6. CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BEYOND
THE ENERGY SECTOR
• New approaches to protect and restore forests, grasslands and wetlands
to bolster our carbon sinks
 In April, USDA announced suite of ten programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
increase carbon sequestration and expand renewable energy production in the
agricultural and forestry sectors.
 Through these efforts, the U.S. expects to reduce net emissions and enhance carbon
sequestration by over 120 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MMTCO2e) per year –
about 2 percent of economy‐wide net greenhouse emissions – by 2025.
 These building blocks include increasing soil health, improving nitrogen stewardship,
reducing livestock emissions, promoting rural renewable generation and efficiency, and
encouraging forest growth and retention.
 USDA will promote broader deployment of no‐till agriculture, optimized nitrogen
application, anaerobic digesters, and lagoon covers to reduce carbon dioxide, nitrous
oxide, and methane emissions.
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7. SOURCES FOR OUR PROGRESS
• White House Climate Change Website https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate‐change
• Our Record on Climate Change www.whitehouse.gov/the‐record/climate‐change
• @factsonclimate
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