New Efforts To Clean The Polluted Air Around The World

Since the historic Paris Climate Agreement of December 2015, many nations around the world have taken concrete steps to carry out its goal of reducing carbon emissions – mostly from industries and from motor vehicles cars – around the world so as to limit the rise in world temperatures that are now melting polar glaciers, raising ocean levels, and generating more and more powerful typhoons and hurricanes.

Early this week, the United States announced concrete steps it taking to help achieve its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We in the Philippines should see how we too can make our contributions and see which of these steps we too can adopt,

The US, now under new President Joseph Biden, announced it will:

• Offer new tax incentives to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles, on top of the present $7,500 tax credit.

• Electrify the fleet of 650,000 government cars, as well as the nation’s 500,000 school buses.