In the interest of empowering grassroots activists that are
working to resist climate false solutions and address the broad
array of public health and environmental crises bearing down on our
communities, Biofuelwatch submits a report
to be included in the record of public comment on the draft 2022
Scoping Plan. This report serves as a window into the backroom
dynamics that drive California climate politics, and the resultant
state-facilitated policy agenda, often celebrated as an example for
the world to emulate.
The report — titled ‘Carbon
Capture or Captured Futures? Fossil Fuel and Bioenergy Controls
California “Getting to Neutral” Climate
Policy’ — exposes the intricate workings of
California’s policy making apparatus. The report describes
how an elite group of private and public sector specialists has
coordinated behind the scenes to promote unproven and dangerous
carbon removal technologies in a multifaceted attempt to set the
state climate policy table — and to establish a model that
could be exported to other state and national jurisdictions. This
information is crucially important in understanding the roots of
the intensifying controversies around the development of the
current Scoping Plan.
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