As a followup to this earlier post, I received a nice note from Ross Clark, city of Santa Cruz's climate action coordinator who gave me a few links to city of Santa Cruz greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). He is now in the process of updating the 2005 numbers to 2008.
Santa Cruz city has committed itself to reduce GHG emissions by 30% of 1990's total (by the year 2020). Under Kyoto, which the US did not sign, the country as whole should reduce GHG by 7% of 1990 (by the year 2020).
[Remark1, some people feel California should be a leader in reducing GHG because of relatively mild winters and summers, compared to, say, cold Chicago or steamy New Orleans.
Remark2, China, which refuses to accept any reduction in its GHG, has a stated position that developed countries should reduce GHG by 40% of 1990 by 2020.
Remark3, China + US comprise 40% of world's total GHG emissions.]
City of Santa Cruz Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventor (October 2008, based on 2005) (pdf)
Interesting Sentinel Article (February 12, 2009) Tom Rosewall is a member of Santa Cruz County's Environmental Commission. Anyone know if his software has been adopted?
Friday, August 28, 2009
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