Aspen Energy & Envir

1. Appoint diverse leadership at all levels who are committed to fighting the climate crisis. People ARE policy. Appointing diverse leaders -from cabinet-level to the most junior appointee - who understand the ambition needed to achieve deep decarbonization is critical. (2/x)

2. Build a management structure to ensure all agencies are moving in the same direction. By creating a Climate cabinet they can centralize policy-making with clear decision making and implementation. (3/x)

3. Build consensus with state leadership to move toward finding climate solutions. The White House should convene state and local leaders to commit to climate goals - setting everyone up for success. (4/x)

4. Rejoin the Paris Agreement, with a vengeance. Not only should the Biden-Harris administration rejoin Paris, but it's domestic policy must prove its bona fides, and it should drastically increase its ambition at #COP26. (5/x)

5. Invest massively in research, development, demonstration, and deployment. Electricity is just the start. Transporation, industry, agriculture, and buildings must be decarbonized. And Carbon must be removed from the air. (6/x)

(cont) to do this, they should massively increase R&D budgets and also scale up deployment activities for maturing clean energy technology. (7/x)

6. Rethink how the US builds things. To achieve deep decarbonization a massive amount of incremental infrastructure will need to be built in the next 30 years. We need to untangle the siting and permitting knot once and for all - while protecting the environment (8/x)