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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may want to consider signing the petition below against a delay in plans on reaching Carbon neutrality in California.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black">
<a href="mailto:ca-gnd@googlegroups.com">ca-gnd@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ca-gnd@googlegroups.com">ca-gnd@googlegroups.com</a>> on behalf of Ellie Cohen <<a href="mailto:ellie@theclimatecenter.org">ellie@theclimatecenter.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 24, 2022 11:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ellie Cohen <<a href="mailto:ellie@theclimatecenter.org">ellie@theclimatecenter.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CA GND] PLEASE SHARE-- CARB Scoping Plan Academic and Scientist Sign on Letter- CA can and must do more</span>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonospacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">As you may know, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is on a dangerous trajectory with their latest climate action blue-print released in draft form earlier this month.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">CARB </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">released
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">four</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">
<b>draft alternatives for reaching carbon neutrality, including two by 2035 and two by 2045. Staff are recommending the adoption of Alternative 3</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">,
<b>a pathway to carbon neutrality by 2045,</b> requiring little immediate action to reduce climate pollution.
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<p class="xmsonospacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All the considered scenarios were flawed in several ways, including their assumptions about the role of carbon removal technologies, modeling errors, ignoring the significant cost of inaction or delayed
action, and ignoring the potentially significant role for natural carbon sequestration in this decade.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If California adopts the plan as is, we will be setback dramatically on our climate and environmental justice goals. This current plan gives the fossil fuel industry a win at the expense of vulnerable
communities in California. Shocking as it is, there's something you can do.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Daniel Kammen, UC Berkeley Professor and Senior Advisor for Energy and Innovation at USAID,
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-17/california-air-resources-board-carbon-neutrality-2045-2030">
published an Op-Ed in the LA Times</a> last week detailing why CARB needs to fix this plan and bring it in line with the urgency of the climate crisis. This Op-Ed has turned a lot of heads.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To build on this momentum, <span style="color:black">
Professor Kammen is now </span>circulating a sign on letter <span style="color:black">
for academics and scientists to join in demanding must action sooner. As the letter states,
</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">“not only is 2045 too late for carbon neutrality, the strategies recommended in the Scoping Plan are inadequate and unjust.”</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you are an academic or scientist</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">w</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ill you sign
on to this letter to tell CARB and Governor Newsom to deliver a bold climate blue-print that centers equity, public health and puts people before fossil fuel profits?</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <b><span style="color:black">Please</span></b><span style="color:black">
<b>sign on to this letter by COB, Friday, June 3</b></span><b><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:black">here: </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9 </span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Others, please share with your networks to get as many academics and scientists signed on as we can by June 3.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The plan is to use <span style="color:black">
this sign-on letter to generate more media attention and focus on the Newsom </span>Administration in the lead up to an important CARB Board Meeting on June 23.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you <span style="color:black">
so much for your help!</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ellie</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">_____</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ellie M. Cohen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Chief Executive Officer</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Climate Center</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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