SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER creating nationally unique City carbon offset program
19 December 2007San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today issued the following Executive Directive 07-13:
Scientific evidence indicates that the risks of global warming are so dire that aggressive and immediate action is needed to reduce carbon emissions globally. San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan commits to reducing localized greenhouse gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. To meet this goal, the City has implemented a broad array of aggressive emission reduction measures.
In addition to pursuing direct reduction measures, our local government can also play a leadership role mitigating carbon emissions that are produced in San Francisco by government, residents and businesses. The purchase of ‘carbon offsets’ allow this mitigation to occur by funding activities that either absorb carbon from the atmosphere or reduce carbon that would otherwise be emitted into the air.
Through this Executive Directive, I am directing the City’s Department of Environment to develop and pilot a Local Carbon Offset Program, the first of its kind in the United States. This Program will fund carbon-offset activities exclusively within San Francisco’s boundaries. In doing so, it will give city departments, local businesses and residents alike the opportunity to mitigate carbon pollution generated by their own activities, while investing in building a sustainable local renewable energy economy and improving the environment within the community in which we live. This program differs from existing carbon offset programs that seek to offset carbon pollution far away from where this pollution is actually created.
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