Stop Global Warming Connecticut

To combat global warming in Connecticut, Environment Northeast joined with Clean Water Action, Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Environment Connecticut, Environmental Defense, and the Nature Conservancy to call on Connecticut’s elected officials to commit to new binding global warming reduction requirements and the next set of climate change policies.

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Stop Global Warming Connecticut


Representative Pat Widlitz points to ENE graph of
CT carbon emissions at March 18 press conference
for Global Warming Solutions Bill HB 5600. ENE's Jessie
Stratton and Alice Liddell are pictured at right.

 

The Stop Global Warming Connecticut Campaign specifically seeks to enact a mandatory cap on global warming pollution that will cut emissions to 10% below 1990 levels by 2020 and by at least 80% by 2050. Mandating a reduction in emissions will enable the state to meet the targets it set in its 2004, Act Concerning Climate Change.

The Stop Global Warming Connecticut Campaign is also recommending achievable next steps that the state can adopt to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as a low carbon fuel standard to cut emissions from motor vehicles and transportation investment requirements.