Unfortunately that ship has sailed at least a decade ago; even the goals of Paris 2015 have become obsolete. If we really want to make an impact we need to act until 2030, not until 2050.
Energy consumption in a country typically is splitted between households, transportation, industry and trade/services area. Looking at below graph for example and comparing it to other countries you will notice that the American industry is an energy hog. If we really want to reduce and cut CO2 emissions the only way in a capitalism world is emitting CO2 in the long run so expensive that people finally have to move their lazy asses and look for alternatives; people need to invest. The industry needs to invest, too.
And remodeling those areas at large can only be disruptive, nothing more, nothing less. But disruption must not always be come with bad experiences - the iPhone was disruptive, but in a positive kind of way looking at how ubiquitious it is nowadays.
Only if energy becomes expensive enough and there is suddenly a demand for low fuel consumption cars in America people will get them. Or switch over directly to Tesla. Because that's the simple logic of capitalism, as long as something is dirt cheap people will flock around it; if you want something to change it needs to get much more expensive.
In short I am convinced that it cannot be done without stepping on many peoples toes, who might cry in the short term. But that's the price of doing over three decades doing just "business as usual" and doing nothing to improve the situation.
So in short if cutting down emissions is really the goal, one viable mechanism of choise is an over the years increasing CO2 emission tax. And of course people are going to cry about it, because they always do, but that's the way it is and in the long end the question is: can we just move on like that, or do we need change? If we come to the conclusion that we do need change, our lifestyle has to change and get a much much lower carbon footprint. Period.
