I’d like for the California Air
Resources Board to adopt a significantly more ambitious plan on how
California will combat the most catastrophic impacts of climate
change in the crucial years ahead. Scientists have increasingly raised the alarm
that this decade is our last chance to make significant and
meaningful changes in our transportation, energy, building, and
other major infrastructure to prevent an irreversible climate
catastrophe, which is why I am disappointed that the Draft Scoping
Plan fails to accelerate the targets to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 or to achieve carbon
neutrality no earlier than 2045
The escalating climate crisis demands that CARB adopts
a more ambitious Scoping Plan, one with the vision and conviction
to provide the solutions that are needed to overcome the crisis
that we face. CARB must improve the Draft Scoping Plan by
accelerating a phase-out of oil and gas extraction and oil
refining; not making any more investment in fossil fuel
infrastructure; eliminating or significantly reducing our reliance
on unproven and costly technologies to prolong polluting fuel
sources; pursuing more robust transportation sector targets; and
decarbonizing buildings.
Thank you.
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