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Public advocate urges Flagstaff to add wildfire, flood and drought as top priorities in carbon-neutrality plan
Summary
At the March 5 Flagstaff City Council meeting, Tom Pearson of Flagstaff First urged the council to restore wildfire, flooding and drought as top priorities in the city's Carbon Neutrality Plan, arguing current plan pages give insufficient emphasis to adaptation despite recent local disasters.
Tom Pearson, a representative of the grassroots group Flagstaff First, told the Flagstaff City Council on March 5 that the city's Carbon Neutrality Plan (CNP) should be amended to list wildfire, flooding and drought as top priorities. Pearson said the 2018 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan explicitly named those threats and that, in his view, the CNP’s coverage of adaptation is limited: “The CNP’s 162 pages only devotes 9 pages to a single climate adaptation topic,” he said during public comment. He described local experience with large wildfires and damaging floods since 2018 and said the city needs a comprehensive, integrated…
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