Olympia, Tumwater, Lacey, and Thurston County have adopted a shared climate mitigation plan. They’re evaluating actions to reach the greenhouse gas reductions in their common targets – to reduce their inventoried greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment, on-road vehicles, waste, and agricultural livestock to 45 percent below 2015 levels by 2030 and 85 percent below 2015 levels by 2050. They have a shared website about their work to implement the plan. You can subscribe to get a weekly email about climate-related meetings at these four local jurisdictions at https://thurstonclimate.info/.
This website’s intended to support citizens and staff in selecting and implementing actions by collecting and sharing examples and tools from those jurisdictions and around the planet. It’s organized, in part, by the list of potential local actions generated by the topic focus groups in the local planning process. (The 72 actions that were actually included in the plan’s estimates of potential reductions are marked with asterisks.)
However, that process currently only addresses reducing emissions which are actually produced in Thurston County. The site also covers some potential actions to reduce the emissions produced outside the County through our local consumption of food, other goods, and services. Those consumption emissions are about as large as the emissions produced in the county…
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