Key Commitments
Reduce GHG emissions 50% below 1990 levels by 2030, 80% below 1990 levels by 2050; Update Comprehensive Plan by 2029 to integrate Climate Change Element
Goals
(5 total)
- EN Goal 1: Improve and protect the natural environment while reducing current and future impacts
- EN Goal 2: Promote public safety by protecting geologically hazardous areas
- EN Goal 3: Preserve and restore trees and natural landscapes to promote adaptable and resilient environments
- EN Goal 4: Significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to support local and regional reduction targets
- EN Goal 5: Reduce consumption of resources, minimize waste, and control pollution
Stronger Policy Language (15 policies)
- EN Policy 1.2: Protect critical areas and wildlife habitat through regulation, acquisition, incentives, and other techniques.
- EN Policy 1.3: Preserve, protect, and restore water resources such as wetlands, aquifers, streams, riparian areas, and shorelines...
- EN Policy 4.7: Contribute to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency's goal of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases 50% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
- EN Policy 4.8: Retrofit applicable municipal buildings to meet Clean Building standards.
- EN Policy 5.4: Reduce per capita water consumption through conservation, efficiency, reclamation, and reuse.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (15 policies)
- EN Policy 1.1: Promote and coordinate educational programs to raise public awareness of environmental issues, encourage respect for the environment...
- EN Policy 3.3: Prioritize underserved and vulnerable communities for tree canopy cover and open space investments.
- EN Policy 4.1: Encourage the transition to a sustainable energy future by reducing demand through efficiency and conservation...
- EN Policy 4.4: Advocate for expansion of mass transit and encourage car-sharing, cycling, and walking as an alternative to dependence on automobiles.
- EN Policy 5.1: Reduce solid waste and promote recycling and solid waste reduction through coordination with solid waste service providers and Snohomish County.