To CARB decision makers:
The world is watching California,
a putative leader in climate action. But the latest proposed CARB climate plan
is a go-slow program of
insufficient change, and others are likely to dilute their own
goals and programs.
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California’s goal should be at least an 80 percent
reduction in emissions by 2030. Prof. Daniel
Kammen, former coordinating author of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change and Professor of Sustainability at UC Berkeley,
set out a scientifically backed and feasible program for California
in 2021. It calls for an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2030.
But the draft plan only aims for an 80 percent
reduction in emissions by 2045. Even more
troubling, the draft’s reliance on carbon capture and
sequestration (CCS) or direct air capture of carbon (DAC) to reduce
20 percent of our emissions is more than New York (15
percent) and far more than the State of Washington (5 percent)
anticipates. DAC is a nascent technology that has not yet proven
scalable.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Mark Grossman
Palo Alto, CA
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