Dear Board members,
I am a concerned CA resident writing to urge you to amend the
draft scoping plan to take much bolder action to reduce our
reliance on fossil fuels, pursue a just transition, and meet the
moment with real urgency.
I ask the Board to instruct staff to revise the preferred
alternative so that it puts as much effort and resources into the
next eight to ten years as possible. “Net-zero”
and “carbon neutrality” have devolved into greenwashing
tropes repeated by major polluters and polluting countries that are
dragging their feet. If California, a putative world leader in
climate mitigation, frames its ambition in terms of
“achieving carbon neutrality in 2045,” we will become
complicit with the many other countries that are waffling on their
voluntary nationally determined contributions.
If California does everything it can to accomplish what the IPCC
AR6 Workgroup III on mitigation says is necessary to limit warming
to 1.5°C, we can have a massive positive effect around the
world.
The scoping plan should provide a path to achieve 80
percent reduction in emissions by 2030,
speed up the renewable electricity requirements of SB 100 from 60
percent to 100 percent in 2030, increasing the 40 percent
goal of the cap and trade program to 80 percent, and requiring all
new light duty vehicle sales to be ZEV by 2025 and supporting this
with relevant policies.
Please allow California to remain a leader in responding to the
climate crisis.
Sincerely,
Emily
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