ICCT recently endorsed NC Interfaith Power & Light’s resolution calling for Duke Energy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
Setting this reduction goal in this time frame is essential to alleviating and preventing the worst impacts of global climate change and is the recommendation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The resolution asks Duke Energy to set a carbon dioxide emissions reduction goal for 2030, in addition to the goal they previously set for 2050. NCIPL makes this request because the average temperature increase experienced by the earth is closely related to the total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As people of faith and conscience, we know that we must reduce emissions now to care for this planet and each other. We are therefore calling on corporate leaders and communities, like Duke Energy, to make the necessary emissions reductions for the good of our world.
