ICF Climate Center
Adam Agalloco is Director for Climate Change and Sustainability at the ICF Climate Center.
The ICF Climate Center recently released an important report, "Zeroing-in on climate change: Three 'super solutions' could put the U.S. on a path toward a net-zero economy by 2050." It finds that while the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Infrastructure Reduction Act will move the U.S. about halfway toward its 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goals, there is a pathway to go the rest of the way.
Using ICF's tech platform, CO2Sight™, the ICF Climate Center modeled a path toward achieving U.S. decarbonization goals with three solutions, which are critical pieces of those two federal laws; transportation electrification, buildings, and clean energy. ICF dubbed them "super solutions," whereby the U.S. could eliminate more than forty percent of GHG emissions by 2030 and nearly ninety percent of GHG emissions by 2050.
PUF's Steve Mitnick talked to an author of the report, ICF's Adam Agalloco, to dig deeper into what this all could mean for the future of decarbonization. Be sure to check out the report online at the ICF Climate Center.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: This is an important, quantitative report on the road to decarbonization. You were one of the prime movers, so what are the important takeaways?