2020 Vision
Scientists have given us a timeline — the world has roughly a decade to take meaningful steps to slow climate change. Will Americans elect officials to federal, state, and local governments to ensure the nation does its part? It’s 2020, the planet is on the ballot, and Grist is detailing the stakes.
In This Series
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The presidential candidates just received their climate report cards
The results might surprise ... them.
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There are glimmers of a Green New Deal in Inslee’s big new climate plan
The little-known governor of Washington state just unveiled the ambitious second phase of his climate plan, and there are more pieces of the puzzle to come.
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The Sunrise Movement has a plan to force presidential candidates to address climate change
What’s next for the group pushing the Green New Deal? Look no further than the debates.
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A tale of two Washingtons: How Jay Inslee aims to take his climate plan nationwide
Can the Washington governor break through all the talk about the Green New Deal?
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Beto’s first major 2020 policy proposal is a $5 trillion climate plan
The presidential hopeful unveiled what he called “the most ambitious climate plan in the history of the United States” in a 40-second Twitter video, gesticulating wildly on a backdrop of luscious flora in Yosemite Valley, California.
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Joe Biden wants to be the anti-Trump. Here’s what that could mean for climate policy.
The former veep will inherit Obama's climate record -- both the good bits and the bad ones.
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Jay Inslee turns up the pressure on the DNC to host a climate debate
“Each 2020 candidate needs to have a concrete plan to take on this challenge — and we deserve to hear those plans,” Inslee wrote.
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Here’s where all the official Democratic presidential candidates stand on climate
Though there are many small distinctions between the 18 presidential hopefuls on climate policy, there are two issues where there is meaningful daylight between candidates: nuclear energy and carbon taxes.
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Bernie Sanders talked climate on Fox News — and it was a hit
“We have got, as a nation, to reject Trump’s idea that climate change is a hoax.”
