Climate provisions in President Joe Biden’s tax-and-spending plan are critical to fulfilling his pledge to halve U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 but are far from enough, according to a new analysis that finds sweeping changes are required to confront global warming. The U.S. also will have to rapidly accelerate adoption of electric vehicles, impose aggressive emissions limits on individual industries and deploy nascent, yet-to-be-commercialized technologies, according to the World Resources Institute paper released Wednesday. That’s on top of expanding tax incentives for renewable power, advanced energy manufacturing and building efficiency upgrades that are contained in the president’s economic legislation. “We need a comprehensive suite of policies,” said lead author Devashree Saha. The spending plan pending in Congress and a $550 billion infrastructure package signed last month put the 2030 climate goal “within reach, but it does not take us all the way.” Biden’s Build Back Better plan contains […]