The United States will unveil a sweeping plan to decarbonize its economy by midcentury at the next Conference of Parties (COP22), Dean Scott reports for Bloomberg BNA. This decarbonization plan will give other nations a template to create their own plans to shift from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy, U.S. climate negotiator Jonathan Pershing explained at a conference on October 25.

These efforts are part of the U.S.’s national plans toward meeting the Paris Agreement. As Scott explains, “[u]nder the 2015 Paris climate pact, countries are to develop what negotiator Jonathan Pershing termed “midcentury strategies” to show how they’ll halt rising greenhouse gas emissions and meet the accord’s goal to keep global temperatures from rising no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century compared to the pre-industrial era.”

“The pathways we lay out which we plan to release in a couple of weeks in Morocco will detail scenarios in which the U.S. can build a very low-emission economy that lets us play our part in helping achieve our long-term global target of avoiding dangerous climate change,” Pershing said

Image: Brianna Bacon, right, and Lizzie DeLeonibus, left, of Maryland look out over Florida International University’s solar thermal collector system at West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. in 2011 | Image Credit: Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon