Addressing Global Climate Change
Ambitious National Goal to Reduce Emissions Intensity
In February 2002, President Bush committed the United States to a comprehensive strategy to reduce
the greenhouse gas emission intensity of the American economy by 18 percent by 2012. Meeting this
commitment will prevent more than 500 million metric tons of carbon-equivalent emissions through
2012, the equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the road. This step will set America on a path to slow
the growth of our greenhouse gas emissions and, as science justifies, to stop and then reverse the
growth of emissions.
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