Forecasting Our Future: Limiting greenhouse gas emissions
Forecasting Our Future: Limiting greenhouse gas emissions
So when we look at greenhouse gas emissions in Iowa overall and not too surprisingly, agriculture is actually our number one source of greenhouse gas emissions. That's Iowa Environmental council's Kerri Johannsen, she tells us the second greatest source of C. 02 is something we all can control right after that you get direct fuel usage as the second highest um Source of greenhouse-gas emissions. And so that's going to be things like natural gas heating and cooking in people's homes, industrial direct use of natural gas and manufacturing facilities and things like that. Low income households face disproportionately higher energy costs. If you look at the national average for low-income families, 8.6% of their gross income is spent on energy. Johansson said the inflation reduction act should start to level the playing field. I. E. C. Is going to be working hard to make sure that um Iowans across the state in all communities have the opportunity to see how that could lower their energy costs, make their homes more safer and more affordable and then really start to at the same time transform how we use energy to start to bring down greenhouse gas emissions in *** way that structure and will last over time even if *** home doesn't have solar weatherizing it can help cut the energy needed to keep the house warm. This lowers emissions and costs impact. Community action partnerships, weatherization, auditor mike Berg said weatherizing your home is *** start. The big difference is it lowers their fuel bills. I believe on average last year we saved our clients typically $371 over last year's time on their fuel bills. With help from the high efficiency electric home rebate Act, homes can receive up to $1600 from weatherizing their homes. We want to lower the dependency on fossil fuels and homes, so *** lot of that is by sealing them up, putting in more efficient furnaces. Well, the international Panel on climate change says that we need to be there by 2035 and that is not *** lot of time. Um, but it is doable. It is just going to take *** lot of people growing together in the same direction to get that done changes that need to be made not only locally, but globally. If we want to prevent the worst impacts of *** warming planet.
