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San Francisco frames circular economy in Climate Action Plan update, highlights targets and barriers
Summary
Department staff briefed the Commission on framing circular economy as a sector of the Climate Action Plan, proposed embodied-carbon building targets and a multi-strategy roadmap, and identified coordination, funding and outreach as key challenges.
San Francisco Environment Department staff presented a reframed sector for the Climate Action Plan on circular economy, telling the Commission on the Environment that the update will fold upstream actions(reuse, repair, redesign, low-carbon procurement) into the plan and adopt new embodied-carbon targets for buildings.
The department said the shift from the prior "responsible consumption and production" language to a "circular economy" framing is intended to emphasize reuse, repair and design changes that reduce lifecycle, consumption-based emissions. Staff said the city already has sector-based emissions of roughly 4.1 million metric tons CO2e but that consumption-based accounting shifts the picture and highlights emissions tied to goods and food.
Cindy Comerford, climate program manager, described the vision: a…
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