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Milwaukee County outlines Climate Action 2050 plan and adopts sustainable design standards for county facilities
Summary
County sustainability staff presented the newly adopted Climate Action 2050 Plan, outlined implementation steps, and described sustainable design standards that will apply to county capital projects, including tiering, scorecards and an exemption process.
Milwaukee County staff presented the county's Climate Action 2050 Plan and an internal sustainable design standards tool, and described early steps for moving from planning into implementation.
Grant Talley, Director of Sustainability for Milwaukee County, told the City-County Advisory Board on Climate and Economic Equity that the county's Climate Action 2050 Plan—adopted by the County Board in April and signed by County Executive David Crowley—focuses on reducing county operational emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2) and sets implementation milestones to reach carbon neutrality in county operations by 2050. Talley said the county has achieved roughly a 47—648 percent reduction in operational emissions since the 2005 baseline and that…
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