Don’t know how these California Air Resources Board goals on CO2 match those articulated by the Scientists at Bali this week but at least we’re up on the bike and beginning to pedal.
The California Air Resources Board on Thursday set the target at 427 million metric tons by the year 2020 – a nearly 30 percent reduction from emission levels if no new regulations were in place.
To help reach that goal, the air board also adopted a mandate for the state’s largest industrial air polluters – such as oil refineries, cement plants and electricity generators – to begin tracking their greenhouse gas emissions next year.
Those firms will also be required to report their numbers to the air board beginning in 2009.