This new report by the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, staffed by INC’s John Cleveland, analyzes, quantifies, and prioritizes strategies and actions for reducing GHG emissions and\u00a0explicitly\u00a0addresses the potential impacts of different policies on social equity.<\/p>\n
From the report introduction:<\/p>\n
“The report\u2019s analysis makes clear the great magnitude of the change needed to achieve carbon neutrality. It requires an electricity\u00a0grid that is powered by renewable sources of energy and a large-scale reduction in the use of oil and natural gas for transportation,\u00a0space heating, and hot water. It requires immediate and dramatic efforts to make buildings more energy efficient. It entails replacing\u00a0travel in personal vehicles with greater use of public transportation, cycling and walking, while eliminating the use of internal\u00a0combustion engines for remaining vehicles. And it necessitates sending zero-waste to landfills and incinerators. These necessary\u00a0achievements will require innovation and transformation in our city\u2019s core systems. And we will need to make these changes in a\u00a0way that is cost effective, that equitably distributes benefits and burdens, and that does not unduly disrupt ongoing operations.”<\/p>\n
— Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.,\u00a0Co-Chair, Boston Green Ribbon Commission Vice Chair, Boston Green Ribbon Commission\u00a0and Trustee, Barr Foundation<\/p>\n
— Mindy Lubber, Vice Chair, Boston Green Ribbon Commission, CEO & President, Ceres<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This new report by the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, staffed by INC’s John Cleveland, analyzes, quantifies, and prioritizes strategies and actions for reducing GHG emissions and\u00a0explicitly\u00a0addresses the potential impacts of different policies on social equity. From the report introduction: “The report\u2019s analysis makes clear the great magnitude of the change needed to achieve carbon neutrality. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,40,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities","category-climate-innovation-laboratory-cities","category-innovation-network-for-communities","category-urban-climate-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}