United States Climate Alliance

For the European climate organization, see Climate Alliance.

United States Climate Alliance
  United States Climate Alliance
  Former members
TypeSubnational coalition (not legally binding)
Membership
22 out of 50 states[1]
2 out of 5 territories[1]
Leaders
• Co-chair
Washington (state) Jay Inslee
• Co-chair
Maine Janet Mills
• Co-chair elect
New York (state) Kathy Hochul
• Co-chair elect
New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham
EstablishmentJune 1, 2017
Population
• 2022 estimate
179,618,352[3][4][5][6][7] (8th)
GDP (PPP)2023 estimate
• Total
$11.516 trillion[8][9][10][11][7] (4th)
• Per capita
$64,115 (10th)
Website
USClimateAlliance.org[12]

The United States Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of states and unincorporated self-governing territories in the United States that are committed to upholding the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change within their borders, by achieving the U.S. goal of reducing greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide equivalent) economy-wide emissions 26–28% from 2005 levels by 2025[13] and meeting or exceeding the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan.

The Alliance was formed on June 1, 2017, following the announcement earlier that day by President Donald Trump that he had decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. The Alliance also forms a forum for its members to further develop and strengthen their existing Climate Action Plans, through sharing of information and best practices.

As of August 19, 2024, the 24 members of the Alliance at the time made up 55% of the U.S. population and over 60% of U.S. GDP.[1][3][4][5][6][8][9][10][11][7] Vermont is currently the only state with a Republican governor to be part of the alliance. After excluding Puerto Rico and Guam figures from the emission total (required due to their status as territories rather than states), the 2023 members' combined share of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions was 42% in 2020.[14][7]

  1. ^ a b c "U.S. Climate Alliance Members". U.S. Climate Alliance. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guam joins was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "data.census.gov". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Puerto Rico". Census Bureau QuickFacts. July 1, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "World Bank Open Data". World Bank Open Data. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  6. ^ a b "2020 Island Areas Censuses Data Now Available for American Samoa". Census.gov. October 21, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d "Factsheet: Further. Faster. Together" (PDF). U.S. Climate Alliance. September 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  8. ^ a b "GDP by State". Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  9. ^ a b "GDP for Puerto Rico". U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). July 26, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  10. ^ a b "GDP for Guam". U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). November 2, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  11. ^ a b "GDP for American Samoa". U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). September 1, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference website was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ "U.S.A. First NDC Submission" (PDF). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). September 3, 2016.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference CO2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).