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Students tell Eugene commission climate action must pair with affordability, safety and university accountability
Summary
University and local K–12 students told the Eugene Sustainability Commission that transportation safety, affordability and enforceable decarbonization of big institutional emitters should be central to local climate work; students offered concrete partnership ideas and urged more visible city–campus collaboration.
A youth panel at a Eugene Sustainability Commission meeting urged elected and staff leaders to pair local climate action with affordability, transportation safety and stronger engagement with university institutions.
Declan, a fourth-year political science student at the University of Oregon, told commissioners the city has foundational policies but “we've only reduced communitywide emissions by 11%,” and said that, "which means we'll need to reduce communitywide emissions by 39% over the next four years," a shortfall he said requires enforceable measures and regulation of large emitters. He also praised local initiatives such as the home-energy score concept and the…
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