California will blow past its 2030 climate target unless it more than triples the pace of greenhouse gas reductions to about 4.5% annually, according to a report released Tuesday by a San Francisco think tank.
that a San Francisco organization released Tuesday that identifies rising pollution from wildfires, transportation and landfills as among the biggest obstacles standing between California and its ambitious climate goals., describes a vicious circle in which air pollution from fires, growing more intense and destructive with the warming climate, threatens to undermine the state’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
State climate regulators said it was misleading to compare the carbon released by wildfires and the emissions from burning fossil fuels, which they said are two completely different types of pollution.
Though wildfires would happen naturally, even without human influence, Fowler noted, “as these continue to get worse there is some percentage of that emissions total that we can hold ourselves accountable for.”that sequester planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere, according to the report, which suggests that with the recent increase in wildfires, in 2017 “the state’s forests may have acted as a net source for carbon emissions.
“We’re going to need major policy breakthroughs and deep structural changes if we’re going to deliver the much steeper emissions reductions required in the years ahead,” Perry said.that “lays out a cost-effective, technologically feasible path” to the 2030 target, including measures to transform the state’s vehicle fleet, reduce the amount of driving and strengthen industry regulations.
In contrast with the “fossil carbon” spewed by cars, trucks and power plants, the 2018 wildfires released “modern carbon” that will be reabsorbed and drawn back out of the atmosphere as burned areas regrow in the coming decades, Kleeman explained. Landfill emissions have risen each year since 2004 as Californians waste more and recycle less, according to the report, an increasing challenge with California and other states unable to send recyclables to China and other foreign markets.
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