Beyhond carbon emissiom cuts: Obama's action plan as a Climate New Deal?

"I don't want to fool you, this is going to be hard. No single action, no single country will change the warming of the planet", President Obama realistically declared. But media all over the world pointed their attention on the cut of carbon emissions, especialy, but not only, from carbon power plants. This aspect, definitely, is important, and it's being debated not only in the US; but, in my opinion, the presidential plan represents a radical different approach in coping with climate change issues. Not only it is the first time that in a political document is admitted the reality and urgence of this problem, but also the plan designs a complete strategy in an effort to mitigate the effects of global warming, in the present and in future. 

In this perspective, the most important part of the document is that titled "Preparing for the impacts of climate change". Arguing that it was almost too late, President Obama took in account that the priority is avoiding other natural disasters or mitigating the effects of  possible catastrophes. The to-do list is long, from providing tools for climate resilience to creating sustainable and resilient hospitals, from reducing risks to assesing the impact of climate change; neverthless, at the center of the strategy, are a (not yet specified in detail) plan of investiments at national level, a financial and coordinated effort to adapt US to the effects of global warming.

Will it be a Climate New Deal? It's too early to say, thought presidential elections are approaching too; morever, a such plan would be an important incentive to the US economy, both in creating jobs and in avoiding damages and emergences; and reducing the risk means also a decline in costs of reconstruction in case of natural disasters. And, at last, it would drive to an improvement in research & development.

from Current challenges in the impacts and adaptation to climate change: Introduction to IPCC WG2 and IPCC WG3 (BC3 Summer School _July 2015)

But the question for us living in the opposite side of the Atlantic ocean is: will Europe follow the US in implementing a strategy to cope with climate change? Surely, it is a matter of political decision and, before it, of taking in account that the problem is important and the action must be now.

It's a match is worth to be played, for the present and for the future generations; but it's also a change of perspective in view of a new sustainale development at world scale.