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Columbus updates climate action plan, officials and advocates press for more funding to grow tree canopy
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City staff presented the 2025 update to Columbus' Climate Action Plan, reaffirming a 45% greenhouse-gas reduction target by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050; advocates urged immediate budget commitments to expand the city's urban tree canopy and fund local planting capacity.
City staff on Monday outlined a 2025 update to Columbus' Climate Action Plan that keeps the city's goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions 45% by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 while sharpening implementation priorities such as residential and commercial energy efficiency and urban tree canopy expansion.
"Since 2020, the city of Columbus has been pursuing climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030, and being carbon carbon neutral by 2050," Brooke White, climate planning programmer with Sustainable Columbus, told the Public Utilities and Sustainability Committee. White…
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