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US Climate Action Report to UN Projects 4% Growth in Total US GHG Emissions to 2020

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With additional mitigation measures, such as those that would be implemented under the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the United States would have a GHG reduction goal of 17 percent by 2020, though US GDP is projected to grow by 40 percent in that time. Calls for rapid action on HFCs.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author The small island nations of Micronesia and Mauritius submitted a joint proposal in April to phase down production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.