CARB Boosts 2030 GHG Target In Final Proposed Climate ‘Scoping Plan’

California air regulators are increasing their 2030 greenhouse gas-reduction target by 8 percentage points -- to 48 percent below 1990 levels -- in their final proposed 2022 climate change “scoping plan” update, while estimating that the sweeping strategy can reduce anthropogenic GHG emissions 85 percent and achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2045. “This plan will indeed be very difficult to achieve because of the scale of the task, and the speed with which it needs to be delivered. For example, we...