The climate plan outlines key emissions reduction targets and policy steps to help Massachusetts achieve the legally required target of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Solar trackers are seen in South Burlington, Vt., on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Burlington is already 100 percent powered by renewables.
"This effort will have significant implications for our economy, which is why we must engage closely with other state agencies, municipalities, businesses and residents." Those limits are slightly stricter than they would need to be to achieve the 85 percent economy-wide reduction necessary to hit net-zero emissions, and the administration said that approach offers"margins for error."
Binding together the transportation changes is a broad effort to reduce Bay Staters' reliance on traveling in their own personal cars. Instead, policymakers will work to encourage greater use of walking, biking and public transportation, including by constructing more housing near transit stations. Card said the plan also calls for crafting policies to limit the clearing of forests for solar developments and for planting at least 64,400 acres of trees in the coming decades.
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