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Supervisors update San Francisco’s Chapter 9, set tougher climate targets and require departmental roles
Summary
The Board of Supervisors’ Land Use & Transportation Committee amended Chapter 9 of the Environment Code to set more ambitious greenhouse‑gas targets, require a five‑year Climate Action Plan and a public monitoring dashboard, and assign departmental responsibilities for implementation. The committee approved edits increasing near‑term sector and consumption reductions and advanced the ordinance to the full Board as a committee report.
San Francisco — The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted July 19 to advance an updated Chapter 9 of the city’s Environment Code that sets new citywide climate targets, tightens planning and reporting timelines, and assigns roles across city departments to implement a forthcoming Climate Action Plan.
Cindy Comerford, program manager at the Department of the Environment, told the committee the ordinance modernizes Chapter 9 to reflect recent climate science and to unify departmental responsibilities. “Chapter 9 will serve as an opportunity to unify the city and city departments around the same climate goals,” Comerford said, adding the update creates a framework for a climate plan that staff aim to publish shortly after adoption.
Comerford described the ordinance’s goals as a mix of sector‑based and consumption‑based targets, a five‑year…
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