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Platform calls for an additional 500 million solar panels and 60,000 wind turbines to expand clean energy.
Democrats are vowing to reduce agriculture emissions to net-zero by 2050. The declaration is part of the party’s 2024 platform released Monday to coincide with its national convention. It calls for expanded federal programs to help farmers, ranchers and forest landowners pursue “high-productivity, lower-emission, and generative agricultural practices,” that improve regional food systems.
Democrat and Republican leaders release updated platforms every four years in conjunction with their party conventions. They are meant to affirm the goals and principles the parties stand for. While they don’t necessarily reflect the views of individual candidates, the platforms are considered an indication of what party members expect to prioritize in upcoming legislation.
Under a section titled “Combatting the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice,” the Democratic platform calls climate change a global emergency.
“We can and must build a thriving, equitable, and globally competitive clean energy economy that puts workers and communities first and leaves no one behind,” the platform states. “We will help rebuild our economy from the COVID-19 pandemic and President Trump’s recession by mobilizing historic, transformative public and private investments to launch a clean energy revolution.”
The platform calls for an additional 500 million solar panels and 60,000 wind turbines to expand clean energy. This is part of a broader effort to eliminate carbon pollution from power plants by 2035. The platform also calls for more sustainable and resilient energy grids in rural and tribal communities.
“Democrats will partner with farmers to make the American agriculture sector the first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions, opening up new sources of income for farmers in the process,” the platform continues. “We will substantially improve water security and ecological health through conservation, protection, and maintenance of our water infrastructure, including water systems for home, commercial, industrial, and agricultural use.”
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