How Biden climate policy might impact Georgia

Posted January 28, 2021

External Article: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marilyn Brown, Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article "How Biden climate policy might impact Georgia," published Jan. 28, 2021 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Brown, who led the groundbreaking Drawdown Georgia project and has extensively researched the interaction of systems contributing to global emissions and climate change, spoke to the aggressive executive action that President Joe Biden's administration has taken so far on the issue.

Excerpt:

With the ambitious goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, President Joe Biden, in one week, signed a series of executive orders prioritizing climate change and giving the country an urgent push toward eliminating the emissions that have led to global warming.

Though many of those orders are far-reaching, addressing issues of national and international concern, many will also have significant impacts on Georgia.

“A lot of the executive orders are far from Georgia, but they signal a commitment to move away from fossil fuels and that in general has significant repercussions in Georgia,” said Marilyn Brown, professor in the school of public policy at Georgia Tech. “We will be seeing a move to more renewables in our power sector and an uptick of electric vehicles in our transportation sector.”

Full article.