1. Build a clean economy.
2. Invest in low-income, Black, and Latinx American communities, which are likely to be hit first and hardest by climate change.
3. Restore American leadership and rejoin the Paris Agreement .
- Enact a price on carbon and use the revenue to send rebates to Americans
- Invest more than $200 billion over 10 years in developing new clean energy technologies
- Build three investment funds: $250 billion American Clean Energy Bank; a 10-year, $250 billion Global Investment Initiative; $50 billion American Cleantech Fund
- Create 3 million jobs by building a net-zero emissions grid, transportation sector, and building sector
- Pay farmers them to capture carbon
- Incentivize consumer purchasing of electric vehicles with tax credits of up to $10,000 per vehicle
- End subsidies for fossil fuel companies and close public lands to new fossil leases
- Create Resilient America Grants ($5 billion per year) to support building resilient infrastructure
- Create a National Catastrophic Disaster Insurance program to provide stability to individuals and communities affected by climate change and other natural risks
- Convene local and regional leaders from around the country and world in a Pittsburgh Summit aimed at developing buy-in for decisive and bold climate action at a local level
- Increase the climate planning and regional readiness budget at the Department of Defense to allow our military leaders to build resilience for military bases and installations
Cost: $1.5 to 2 trillion
Would pay for it in part with carbon fees, but hasn't released more details...
Set up an Office of Sustainability for South Bend. In the aftermath of the US exit from the Paris climate accord, the city has jumped aboard campaigns by mayors to meet the treaty's goals
Analysis: "Buttigieg's climate plan is generally more restrained on spending than those of other candidates, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, but it also includes some different ideas, particularly around America's international role and climate planning and preparedness in the military."
"I’m excited about the possibility of inviting agriculture to be a big part of the solution. Science tells us that with cover crops and soil management, we could be taking in as much carbon on farms around the world as the entire global transportation sector is putting out right now."
https://peteforamerica.com/policies/climate/
https://storage.googleapis.com/pfa-webapp/documents/Climate-Plan-White-Paper.pdf
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062019/pete-buttigieg-climate-change-global-warming-election-2020-candidate-profile
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/11/pete-buttigieg-interview-climate-change-proposal-carbon-tax/600871/