I am writing to urge you to strengthen and improve the Draft
2022 Scoping Plan Update. Scientists have increasingly raised the
alarm that this decade is our last chance to make significant and
meaningful changes in our transportation, energy, building, and
other major infrastructure to prevent an irreversible climate
catastrophe, which is why I am so disappointed that the Draft
Scoping Plan fails to accelerate the targets to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, or to achieve
carbon neutrality no earlier than 2045. This is simply not good
enough to meet the urgency of the climate crisis and the desperate
need for bold actions. CARB must achieve a more ambitious Scoping
Plan that leads to an accelerated pathway to carbon neutrality, so
that the state’s 40 million residents and future generations
of Californians can live in, and thrive in, a cleaner and healthier
environment. This is not just about California - this is about
showing responsible leaderdhip to the world, as California has done
in the past.
I strongly urge the California Air Resources Board to adopt
a more ambitious plan on how our state will combat the most
catastrophic impacts of climate change Now, and in the crucial
years ahead. To accomplish this, CARB must improve the Draft
Scoping Plan by accelerating a phase-out of oil and gas extraction
and oil refining; not making any more investment in fossil fuel
infrastructure; eliminating or significantly reducing our reliance
on unproven and costly technologies to prolong polluting fuel
sources; pursuing more robust transportation sector targets; and
decarbonizing buildings. The escalating climate crisis demands that
CARB adopts a more ambitious Scoping Plan, one with the vision and
conviction to provide the solutions that are needed to overcome the
crisis that we face. Crises need agresive action
NOW.
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