• Establish a market-based system to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mobilize innovative technologies, and strengthen the economy.
• Establish a climate cap-and-trade mechanism to set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit.
• Reform federal government research funding and infrastructure to support the cap-and-trade emissions reduction goals and emphasize the commercialization of low-carbon technologies.
• Invest in a clean energy economy and create millions of new green jobs.
• Create new job training programs for clean technologies.
• Boost the renewable energy sector.
• Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
• Reduce electricity demand 15 percent from projected levels by 2020.
• Weatherize at least one million low-income homes each year for the next decade.
• Enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.
• Require all pollution credits to be auctioned through a cap-and-trade policy. Proceeds will go to investments in a clean energy future, habitat protections, and rebates and other transition relief for families.
• Re-engage with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)—the main international forum dedicated to addressing the climate problem.
• Create a Global Energy Forum of the world’s largest emitters to focus exclusively on global energy and environmental issues.