Taken from the white house’s website Obama’s Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI) states as follows, “The United States will integrate climate change considerations into relevant foreign assistance through the full range of bilateral, multilateral, and private mechanisms to foster low-carbon growth, promote sustainable and resilient societies, and reduce emissions from deforestation and land degradation.”

Under The Obama administration many environmental accomplishments have taken place. Legislation has been passed so that all cars and light duty trucks will get about 55 mpg by 2025. Wind and Solar energy output has doubled and is continuing to grow. The U.S Energy Sector’s carbon pollution level is the lowest its been in 20 years. Many additional measures have been put into place with the goal making of our nation’s environmental efforts more progressive. In 2011 the Obama administration made the fuel economy standards for 2014-2018 model heavy duty trucks and vans. This will reduce green house gas emissions by 270M metric tons and save 30 million barrels of oil.  Also, in 2011 Obama has passed the Better Buildings Initiative to help commercial and industrial buildings become more than 20% more energy efficient by 2020.

The list of Obama’s environmental efforts goes on. He is clearly a man who takes pride in our planet and cares for our future generations experiences/interactions with nature. I would say that Obama is doing a good job at sticking to his policy of making the outdoors in America more sustainable and enjoyable while making us as a nation more energy efficient.