A bicyclist in Hillcrest on Dec. 20, 2022. / Photo by Gabriel Schneider for Voice of San Diego Business and industry leaders in San Diego pushed back on a new scoring system that shows the City Council how to prioritize climate action. The City Council Environment Committee unanimously passed the policy onto the full Council on Thursday. But not without members of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and others insisting climate impacts on jobs and economy be valued more than they currently are. How it works: This new scoring system weighs 190 different climate actions the city must take to reach net zero emissions by 2035, the goal of Mayor Todd Gloria’s Climate Action Plan 2.0. Greenhouse gas emissions are weighed as most important within the system, therefore actions like decarbonizing buildings shake out as a top priority for council members. There are other metrics weighing climate actions against each other, like impact on equity or air quality. Councilman Raul Campillo said the new scoring system is not the only tool councilmembers would use to rank climate action. How we got here: The production of this scoring system coincided with publication of a climate action timeline by […]
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