U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has been using social media this week to get word out about climate initiatives and other efforts during the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26).
Among other things, Granholm has been talking about "Net Zero," a worldwide effort to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions down to "net zero" over about 30 years and to limit the amount of global temperature rise.
"I joined @ClimateEnvoy to launch @ENERGY's Net-Zero World @COP26," Granholm said in a Wednesday, Nov. 3 Twitter post. "This new initiative will help forge partnership with our National Labs & philanthropies to help countries across the world achieve their #climate pledges and accelerate the transition to #NetZero."
Granholm arrived in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, Nov. 3 for the COP26. During a more traditional press call and news release, Granholm provided details about her plan to reveal new efforts empowering domestic climate initiatives and shared the department’s goal to accelerate implementation of renewable energy in the U.S. and around the world.
That same day, Granholm also released a video from the U.S. Embassy London in which she described her participation at COP26 and explained the U.S. Department of Energy's role to help the U.S. and its global partners achieve a net-zero economy.
"DOE is America's solutions agency," Granholm said in her video. "Every day, our scientists and innovators are hard at work, literally creating our clean energy future both here at home and around the world."
Since President Joe Biden's inauguration in January, DOE has spent more than $2 billion "to accelerate, to deploy, to develop cutting edge clean energy technologies," Granholm said in the video.
"We are moving a lightning speed to deploy, deploy, deploy the clean energy sources that are ready to go, like solar and wind, but we're also investing in emerging technologies that are crucial for getting us to 100% clean electricity by 2035," she continued.
In another Twitter post the same day, Granholm expressed pride in the nation's labs that "are at the forefront of the technological and scientific breakthroughs we need to create and implement tailored, actionable road maps and investment strategies that put #NetZero within reach."
