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Littleton advisory board backs 'moderately aggressive' climate target, urges 100% energy-efficient streetlights
Summary
At a board meeting, ICLE USA presented ClearPath2 modeling showing 69–79% potential emissions reductions by 2050; the board voted to recommend a moderately aggressive overall target to City Council while asking the city to pursue 100% energy-efficient street lighting.
Sarah Burke, a consultant with ICLE USA, told Littleton’s Environmental Stewardship Board that ClearPath2 modeling shows a range of plausible outcomes for the city’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 depending on how aggressive the city’s building‑ and transportation‑sector interventions are. “If you follow everything that we’ve modeled tonight, and achieved all your actions, you would achieve a 79% reduction by 2050,” Burke said, characterizing that figure as the result of an aggressive, largely policy‑agnostic modeling run.
The consultant framed the modeling as a tool to translate Littleton’s 2023 greenhouse‑gas inventory into possible futures. Burke said stationary energy accounts for roughly 62% of the city’s emissions, transportation about 32% and waste about 6%, and that the model treats “activity shifts” — for example, square footage moving from gas furnaces…
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