North American leaders unveil ambitious plan to boost renewable energy production

The leaders of the Canada, Mexico, and the United States unveiled a sweeping plan to reduce carbon emissions during this year’s trilateral North American Leaders' Summit, held today in Ottawa, Canada. The leaders issued an ambitious goal to generate half of North America’s energy from renewable sources in the next decade.

In a joint statement, U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to bring 50% of North America’s energy production over to "clean power generation", which includes renewable sources by 2025. The plan also calls for government operations to run entirely on clean energy sources in the same amount of time.

The plan calls half of North America's energy to...