[LDES-technology] Fwd: [Sustainability-listserv-f] CARB Scoping Plan Academic and Scientist Sign on Letter- CA can and must do more

[Sarah Kurtz]

Way to go, Dan! (on your op-ed)

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From: Paul Almeida <palmeida at ucmerced.edu<mailto:palmeida at ucmerced.edu>>
Subject: [Sustainability-listserv-f] CARB Scoping Plan Academic and Scientist Sign on Letter- CA can and must do more
Date: May 24, 2022 at 1:22:38 PM PDT
To: "sustainability-listserv-f at lists.ucmerced.edu<mailto:sustainability-listserv-f at lists.ucmerced.edu>" <sustainability-listserv-f at lists.ucmerced.edu<mailto:sustainability-listserv-f at lists.ucmerced.edu>>
Cc: Ana Padilla <anapadilla at ucmerced.edu<mailto:anapadilla at ucmerced.edu>>, Edward Flores <eflores52 at ucmerced.edu<mailto:eflores52 at ucmerced.edu>>

Dear All,

You may want to consider signing the petition below against a delay in plans on reaching Carbon neutrality in California.

Best,
Paul

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From: ca-gnd at googlegroups.com<mailto:ca-gnd at googlegroups.com> <ca-gnd at googlegroups.com<mailto:ca-gnd at googlegroups.com>> on behalf of Ellie Cohen <ellie at theclimatecenter.org<mailto:ellie at theclimatecenter.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 11:29 AM
To: Ellie Cohen <ellie at theclimatecenter.org<mailto:ellie at theclimatecenter.org>>
Subject: [CA GND] PLEASE SHARE-- CARB Scoping Plan Academic and Scientist Sign on Letter- CA can and must do more

Dear colleagues,

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. CARB released four draft alternatives for reaching carbon neutrality, including two by 2035 and two by 2045. Staff are recommending the adoption of Alternative 3, a pathway to carbon neutrality by 2045,requiring little immediate action to reduce climate pollution.

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.

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.

Daniel Kammen, UC Berkeley Professor and Senior Advisor for Energy and Innovation at USAID, published an Op-Ed in the LA Times<https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-17/california-air-resources-board-carbon-neutrality-2045-2030> 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.

To build on this momentum, Professor Kammen is now circulating a sign on letter for academics and scientists to join in demanding must action sooner. As the letter states, “not only is 2045 too late for carbon neutrality, the strategies recommended in the Scoping Plan are inadequate and unjust.”

If you are an academic or scientist, will 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?<https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9> Please sign on to this letter by COB, Friday, June 3 here: https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9 <https://forms.gle/uqQjb1GJN7np2JRs9> .

Others, please share with your networks to get as many academics and scientists signed on as we can by June 3.

The plan is to use this sign-on letter to generate more media attention and focus on the Newsom Administration in the lead up to an important CARB Board Meeting on June 23.

Thank you so much for your help!

Sincerely,

Ellie


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Ellie M. Cohen
Chief Executive Officer
The Climate Center

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