The Inflation Reduction Act is a wide-ranging document aiming at reducing inflation, improve healthcare across the country, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing to increase security of supply and jobs while reducing carbon emissions and focusing on disadvantaged communities. One of the main objective of the Act is to lower energy costs while making cleaner technologies affordable, thus also reducing future costs of climate inaction. It further invests through federal support in a wide range of economic sectors to encourage their decarbonisation efforts. It also aims to increase and resilience among rural areas by supporting climate-smart practices for farmlands and forests.
The Act is based on a series of tax credits, grants and subsidies with a $369 billion funding for climate- and energy-related purposes. Prominent incentives contain in the Act aim to boostthe U.S. manufacturing and buying of electric vehicles; U.S. manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries; carbon-capture solutions ; green hydrogen production.
The Act contains clauses on environmental justice 1) on legacy pollution reduction, 2) on affordable and accessible clean energy for disadvantaged communities, and 3) on better quality of life and good jobs (urban forests, renewable energy, adaptation programs).
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Inflation Reduction Act
2022LegislativeAdaptation, Mitigation
Sectors: Economy-wide, Energy, LULUCF, Rural, Social development, Transport, Urban
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Resilient infrastructure, Fossil fuel divestment, Net zero growth plan, Sustainable fishing
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