Puerto Rico Adopts New Climate Law, With Goal of 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2050

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Puerto Rico. Photo source: ©© Angel Xavier Viera-Vargas

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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló signed into law a new climate change initiative that calls for the island to reduce its carbon emissions 50 percent in the next five years and transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

The law also aims to cut the amount of waste entering landfills by 60 percent by 2030, and calls for planting 500,000 trees within five years…

Read Full Article; Yale E360 (05-24-2019)

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