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Lane County Climate Action Plan Updates
At their February meeting, the Lane County Climate Advisory Committee proposed recommending that County Commissioners convene with all energy utilities that serve Lane County to have a discussion about what it will take to get them to 100% renewable energy and 0% emissions. They also proposed having school districts integrate energy audits of schools, homes, churches etc. into their curriculum.
This diverse committee includes many perspectives, and the county appears to appreciate the committee’s depth of experience. The question is, will the county ignore their recommendations, like the City of Eugene did with their “advisory” bodies? That’s up to us! Their next meeting is March 26th at 12:30pm. You can listen or make comments.
For more info on the Climate Action Plan Advisory Committee, check out BEST’s blog!
350 Eugene Ads Published in the Eugene Register Guard
Thank you to our supporters who have showed up to city council online to speak up about the Northwest Natural Franchise Agreement and action on the Climate Action Plan. We are excited to share two recent educational ads in response to Northwest Natural’s recent pro-fracking propaganda in the Register Guard. Read it for yourself, and contact local decision-makers to share your thoughts.
To learn about the facts that backup our educational ads:
Drawdown Eugene
350 Eugene’s Drawdown campaign works for local climate solutions. Over the past two years, we have focused on following and influencing the city’s process to revise our Climate Action Plan (CAP). The process has been slow, tortuous and to date has not produced the strong, comprehensive plan that we need. The first draft was released in the fall of 2019, and 350 Eugene immediately called it out as a Plan to Fail.
Mayor Lucy Vinis reconvened the Mayor’s Climate Ad Hoc Committee in March 2020, “to provide guidance on how to modify the Draft CAP2.0 and to provide input on additional actions to add to the plan to fully meet the CRO goals”.
350 Eugene has a representative on this committee (Linda Heyl), and we have been active in giving input, pushing to strengthen the CAP’s content and design. There are recent signs of improvement, but we’re not there yet!
Add you name to the Drawdown mailing list to receive status updates about what has improved and what still needs to be done. Let’s continue raising our voices for a CAP that will achieve Eugene’s goals!
Where would you like to plug in?
You don’t need to have any prior knowledge or experience with policy work. Bring whatever skills you have and learn with us!
For more information, click on the links below:
- 350 Eugene Climate Emergency Declaration
- Draft Climate Action Plan 2.0, November 2019 and Public Input Survey
- Eugene Climate Recovery Ordinance, 2016
- Eugene’s Community Sector-Based Greenhouse Gas Inventory, 2017 and the Consumption-based GHG Inventory, 2013
- 350 Eugene’s Action Priorities for the Climate Action Plan
