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• City Government should lead the effort to engage all
• A framework for making Boston more resilient to
• The Boston community should develop innovative
community and measures to reach those goals projected changes in the climate
• Policies to engage all segments of the Boston
segments of the community in climate action.
businesses and workforce skills to take advantage of climate action opportunities.
community in climate action and ensure that costs and benefits are equitably shared
• All segments of the community should find ways to
The two committees and several working groups met over the course of a year, and, near the end of the period, draft recommendations were discussed at five community workshops that attracted almost 500 people. The results of this extensive public process were presented to Mayor Menino on Earth Day 2010 in the report Sparking Boston’s Climate Revolution. The committees presented five overarching recommendations:
In addition to these, the committees submitted 175 detailed recommendations.
• City Government should immediately incorporate projected climate change into all planning initiatives and activities (climate adaptation).
As Mayor Menino stated in his opening letter to this report, the recommended goals, policies, and programs of the Climate Action Leadership Committee and Community Advisory Committee constitute the new climate action plan for Boston. The following update describes the steps that City Government is taking and will take to implement that plan. Background to the plan and details regarding policies and quantitative assessments are contained in the Sparking Boston’s Climate Revolution full report and supplementary material on the Boston Climate Action website www.cityofboston.gov/climate.
UPDATE 2011
gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050 (climate mitigation).
exercise climate action leadership.
BO STO N C LI M AT E AC T I O N P LA N
• The Boston community should reduce its greenhouse
INTRODUCTION
• Greenhouse gas reduction goals for the entire