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Commission urges Board to adopt Chapter 9 updates and backs climate action plan process
Summary
After staff presented proposed updates to Chapter 9 of the Environment Code and an update on the Climate Action Plan, the commission voted to send a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors to support the ordinance. Staff described new targets, equity tools, public engagement reach and next-steps for adoption and the CAP release.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted to urge the Board of Supervisors to support proposed updates to Chapter 9 of the Environment Code and heard a detailed progress report on the city's Climate Action Plan (CAP).
Cindy Comerford, climate program manager, described Chapter 9 as the legal framework that sets greenhouse-gas targets, clarifies departmental roles and requires a regularly updated climate action plan with monitoring and reporting. Staff said the city's 2019 greenhouse-gas inventory shows a roughly 41% reduction from a 1990 baseline and that the proposed ordinance establishes more ambitious long-term goals,…
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