Rochester City Council endorsed the city’sClimate Action Planin May. The plan’s goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2010 levels by 2030.
We discussed the draft plan in November when the document was available for public comment. Now that the plan has been approved, members of local climate action groups say their input was not taken into full consideration. They want more information about how the plan will be enacted: How will programs be funded? Will the plan create jobs? Will it impact the city’s poverty issues?
Last month, Mayor Lovely Warren joined the Mayors National Climate Change Agenda, which has pledged to strengthen local efforts to protect the environment. We discuss how the Climate Action Plan fits in with this goal and if proposed efforts will have enough of an impact on combating climate change. Our guests:
- Norman Jones, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Services for the City of Rochester
- Abby McHugh-Grifa, member of the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition and co-leader of Citizens' Climate Lobby of Rochester
- Sue Hughes-Smith, member of the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition
