{"id":3047,"date":"2024-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/3047\/project-2025-is-a-mandate-for-destroying-democracy-and-the-climate\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:55:29","slug":"project-2025-is-a-mandate-for-destroying-democracy-and-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/project-2025-is-a-mandate-for-destroying-democracy-and-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2025 is a mandate for destroying democracy and the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project 2025’s pro-fossil fuel policies could increase U.S. carbon emissions, undermine climate action, and threaten environmental progress, including international commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Heritage Foundation\u2019s 900+ page <\/span>Mandate for Leadership 2025<\/span><\/a>, known as Project 2025, is a detailed transition plan for the next conservative president. The proposal was <\/span>written and supported<\/span><\/a> by over 100 organizations and funded by <\/span>Wall Street billionaires<\/span><\/a> and far right think tanks, <\/span>many with close ties<\/span><\/a> to former president Donald Trump. Many of the organizations that contributed to or supported the document are <\/span>funded by the fossil fuel industry<\/span><\/a>, including the American Legislative Exchange Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although he tried to distance himself from it, Trump has made it clear that <\/span>he supports<\/span><\/a> many of the broad political changes and specific policies proposed by the Project. To <\/span>publicly detach his campaign<\/span><\/a> from the Project, he supported the America First Agenda (AFA). He also called on the authoring organization, the <\/span>far-right American First Policy Institute<\/span><\/a> (AFPI), to <\/span>lead his transition team<\/span><\/a> in 2025. AFPI is an organization formed by many former senior advisors from the Trump administration. While the AFA is significantly less detailed on specific policy changes, it echoes the same far-right sentiments expressed in Project 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meet the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

Project 2025 is an <\/span>authoritarian blueprint<\/span><\/a> to restructure the government and expand presidential power. The Project outlines a vision that would destroy the essential <\/span>limits on presidential power<\/span><\/a> of the federal government, putting our basic freedoms at risk. The proposal would <\/span>lead to massive reversals of climate protections<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>rollbacks<\/span><\/a> on <\/span>environmental protections<\/span><\/a>, and potentially limit the freedoms of assembly and speech. The chilling agenda details the policy changes a second Trump administration could take to bring many authoritarian ideals into reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Greenpeace movement, we fight for a just world and work to transform the social, environmental, and economic systems that threaten the climate and democracy. We have dedicated our work to protect the world\u2019s oceans, fight against the climate crisis, challenge racist and inequitable systems, and protect basic freedoms of a safe, livable world. In partnership with many allies, we have helped safeguard ecosystems, protect communities from toxic pollution, and advocated for the rights of the people against corporations and extremist politicians. Project 2025 threatens to unravel many essential safeguards for the environment and exacerbate dangerous threats to democratic freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Threats to Climate and the Environment<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

Project 2025 takes <\/span>direct aim at climate policies<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>environmental protections<\/span><\/a>, and consistently distorts climate change as a \u201cpolitical agenda\u201d perpetuated by the left, rather than as a well-documented reality based on overwhelming scientific evidence. The implementation of pro-fossil fuel policies recommended by Project 2025 and echoed by the Trump campaign could add at least <\/span>an additional 4 billion tonnes of carbon<\/span><\/a> to U.S. emissions by 2030 just by rolling back on Biden\u2019s climate progress. These proposals would significantly impede U.S. efforts to mitigate climate change and meet international commitments like those posed in the Paris Climate Agreement. It would also threaten much of the progress Greenpeace USA and our allies have made to protect our environment over the last 53 years:<\/span><\/p>\n

Air and Water Pollution<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n