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Consultants present emissions 'wedge' forecast showing major remaining role for natural gas
Summary
Cascadia consultants presented a future greenhouse gas forecast for Lake Forest Park showing a business-as-usual increase in emissions, adjusted reductions from state and federal policies, and a remaining ‘‘gap’’ that local policies must address; natural gas in buildings is the largest projected remaining source by 2050.
Cascadia consultants presented a future greenhouse gas forecast and wedge analysis to the City of Lake Forest Park's Community Planning Advisory Panel on the city’s preliminary emissions pathways and the remaining gap local policy must fill.
Alicia Purnell, with the Cascadia team, said the analysis compares three scenarios against the city’s targets: a business-as-usual (BAU) projection using 2019 as the baseline, an adjusted BAU that includes expected federal and state policies, and a local-action scenario that models the effects of draft climate element policies. “The BAU scenario projects emissions would increase about 26% by 2050 compared with 2019,” Purnell said, while accounting for…
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