In 2013 President Obama announced new actions to reduce carbon pollution. At the United Nations on September 23, President Obama participated in the Climate Summit, (a meeting of world leaders to showcase climate action commitments from governments. The president talked about the actions that the United States is taking to reduce the pollution produced, president Obama announced new actions to strengthen global resilience to climate change and also participation with partnerships to cut carbon pollution. The Climate Action Plan is working very well, In 2012 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions went down  to the lowest level. When Obama took office the wind energy production has tripled, and solar energy has increased. Few actions were be taken in order to strengthen global resilience. Here are 3 of them.

1) Executive Order on Climate-Resilient International Development. (Agencies were required to factor climate-resilience into the U.S. government’s international development work.)

2)Releasing Powerful New Data to Enable Planning for Resilience.(To empower local authorities to make a better plan for the impacts of environmental changes.)

3)Developing New Outlooks for Extreme-Weather Risk. (To reduce harm from extreme-weather events occurring throughout the world.)

Source http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/23/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-strengthen-global-resil

What is the Environmental Protection Agency is doing in order to reduce the pollution? Going through their website i  read that Environmental  Protection Agency (EPA) is using its authority to issue regulations that address carbon pollution from power plants. In the website it also talked about reducing carbon pollution from power sectors.On September 20, 2013, EPA  proposed carbon pollution standards for power plants built in the future.On June 2, 2014, EPA, when President Obama’s Climate Action Plan came out it proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants. The clean power plan will maintain an affordable energy system, while cutting pollution and protecting peoples health  health and environment. Source: http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/what-epa-doing. 

The clean power plan can help us in the long term making our lives better, some of us dont think about the long term consequences of our actions. The same thing happens with global warming many people don’t take it serious and that is why global warming is increasing due to the gasses being emitted to the atmosphere  But what are some of the benefits that we can get out of the new clean power plan. According to the EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy the clean power plan will

• Cutting carbon emission from the power sector by 30 percent nationwide below 2005 levels, which is equal to the emissions from powering more than half the homes in the United States for one year;
• Cutting particle pollution, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide by more than 25 percent as a co-benefit;
• Avoiding up to 6,600 premature deaths, up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children, and up to 490,000 missed work or school days—providing up to $93 billion in climate and public health benefits; and
• Shrink electricity bills roughly 8 percent by increasing energy efficiency and reducing demand in the electricity system.

Source:http://domesticfuel.com/2014/06/02/epa-officially-releases-clean-power-plan-proposal/