At an international event on Tuesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a declaration to commit Connecticut to reducing its carbon emissions 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050.
The declaration made at the first-ever U.S.-China Leaders Summit in Los Angeles was signed by President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as U.S. state and local leaders and their Chinese counterparts.
Malloy touted Connecticut’s premature achievement of its 2020 goal to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels, as well as programming like the Connecticut Green Bank and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Other governments that made varying degrees of promises to reduce carbon emissions were California, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Houston, Salt Lake City, Lancaster, New York City, Oakland, Carmel, Ind., Des Moines, Miami-Dade County, Phoenix, San Francisco, Beijing, Sichuan, Hainan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Guiyang, Zhenjiang, Jilin, Yan’an, and Jinchang.
