In honor of Earth Day, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a series new citywide climate goals, including an ambitious plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 24 years.
The city’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes hitting key environmental targets like providing all residents with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025.
The plan to provide completely renewable energy would be made possible through CleanPowerSF, the city’s community energy program, created in 2016. CleanPowerSF generates electricity from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, biogas and small-hydro, and has already enrolled around 380,000 businesses and residents.
Mayor Breed also announced on Thursday the city is six years ahead of its goal of reducing emissions by 40 precent by 2025. As of 2019, the city’s emissions have dropped to 41 percent below 1990 levels, city officials said.
“Even with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco has continued to push ahead with our commitment to sustainable and innovative environmental policies that set a standard for the rest of the country. We’re taking bold, aggressive action because our future depends on it,” Breed said in a statement.
CleanPowerSF is overseen by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
SFPUC Acting General Manager Michael Carlin said, “Through our public power programs, we are empowering San Francisco with local, cleaner and more renewable energy sources that also give our residents and businesses a chance to do their part to combat climate change.”
Also, in celebration of Earth Day, Breed announced the Chase Center, home to the Golden State Warriors, is the latest building to be certified by the San Francisco Department of the Environment as a Green Business. Through its energy improvements and water conversation features, the Chase Center is the only NBA arena that is Green Business certified throughout the state.
Other notable San Francisco Green Businesses include Oracle Park, California Academy of Sciences, and the Exploratorium.
Chase Center General Manager Kim Stone said, “Being located in one of the most environmentally-friendly cities in the world, we want to make sure we are doing our part to minimize our environmental impact and reduce our carbon footprint.”
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“SF Mayor Breed Announces Climate Action Plan That Calls For Becoming Carbon Neutral By 2045”
I wonder what her plans are for all of the CO2 that people breath out??
Do you think that the Democrats will make a Law against forest fires? … No forest fires permitted in California.
SINCE many are started by ILEGALS, i doubt it.
Take that memo, fax, or letter that you received from the Socialist Democrat Elites Mayor and shove it. Carbon neutral is just more Bull ****. How about CLEANING UP San Francisco of the human waste and used syringes all over and the thousands of homeless that keep growing. That bullet train to L.A. did not work out so good either . Should have used that money for desalination plants to fix the water problems in Cali.
“Through our public power programs, we are empowering San Francisco with local, cleaner and more renewable energy sources that also give our residents and businesses a chance to do their part to combat climate change.” Yep, when it was 105 degrees in communist California, people could not use their air conditioners because of brown outs and they could not use their stoves to cook with. California with their unreliable, “carbon neutral” energy ,will send Californians to live in the caves. The regression of society. The airhead voters in communist California are cutting their own throats. Liberals end up destroying themselves with their “social utopia”.
Their public power programs dispense Magic Wands.
PITY we can’t make a magic wand, and DOME OFF THE CITY entirely, to keep it’s INSANITY quarantined..
Carbon neutral is just a myth to add to the liberal power grab.
Scientists have proven that our atmosphere has had much larger concentrations of carbon dioxide that it does now. What caused that to change? Emissions control on Fred Flintstone’s car?
How do they explain what caused the “little ice age” to end around 1850? Must have been all the SUVs running around or excessive cow farts.
Get rid of the greenhouse gases and everything in the greenhouse eventually dies.
Ever wonder how much more methane gas the human population expels as compared to the demonized cattle? Or for that matter the amount of hot air coming out of DC.
Ever wonder how much more methane gas the human population expels as compared to the demonized cattle?
In CA the cattle hang their heads in shame. “Tourists think they’re smelling us!”
IMO the entirety of DC puts out more methane, than ALL THe cattle population of the world combined.
This mayor’s plan will be forgotten about long before 2045. This is a great way to appease the gullible global warming crowd even though she is likely to be out office long before then. It would be interesting to look at the number of grand statements and grand initiatives which have been introduced to great fanfare only to be forgotten a few years later.
“The city’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes hitting key environmental targets like providing all residents with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025.”
DANG! This is funny stuff!
Well, they are well on their way to shutting everything down that made a buck or produced anything of use. When is all grinds to a halt they will hang that Mission Accomplished banner. That is, if they can find anyone to actually hang it.
The only things they will still produce there are ammonia and methane.
Another Bimbo traitor Dumbocrat trying to take over the world ! What a looser.