- The Inflation Reduction Act could be an
inflection point for US energy: “I think that people
are going to look back and say, ‘There was the way the energy
markets worked before 2022, and there’s the way they worked
afterwards.’ One of the major barriers to decarbonization—clean
energy deployment cost—now is not a factor, at least for the
foreseeable future. That’s going to mean meaningful progress on
greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.” —John Larsen (6:42)
- The Inflation Reduction
Act signals that the United States is serious
about decarbonization: “This has changed the
tenor of the international conversations around climate change. A
lot of our allies—a lot of the rest of the world, frankly—were wary
of us; they didn’t know whether they could trust the US legislative
system to deliver. The Senate didn’t ratify Kyoto. Trump pulled us
out of the Paris climate agreement. Understandably, they had
questions about what we could do. The fact that ... Congress passed
this major climate legislation signals that we’re ready to tackle
this existential problem.” —Catherine Wolfram (8:07)
- US efforts on climate
change will continue in the coming year: “2023 is going to be a
consequential year for the United States and climate change—as
consequential or even more consequential than 2022. The United
States has a climate target of getting emissions at least 50 percent
below 2005 levels by 2030. In the best-case scenario, the IRA
[Inflation Reduction Act] gets you to 42 percent. There’s a big gap.
The kinds of actions necessary to close that gap take time to put
together, put in place, and enforce, which means there’s only seven
years left. It’s going to be important for the federal government
and for state action to be quick and robust on multiple fronts,
including regulations, IRA implementation, and a lot of other
things.” —John Larsen (25:58)
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