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A growing group of climate activists is calling on Portland leaders to pledge stronger action against climate change with a planned school and work walkout and march this Friday. The march will specifically call out four “climate villains” in Portland that activists say are hindering the city’s climate goals. “A lot of people that I know have a very utopian vision of what they think is going on around them [in Portland],” Maia Lippay, one.
After two years of work and 25 drafts, the Portland Public Schools (PPS) board adopted what is possibly the most robust and aggressive climate policy of any school district in the nation Tuesday. The policy tasks the district with achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and creating emotional support for students experiencing climate anxiety. “This will be a sustainable and durable policy framework because it was built by the community,” said Julia Brim-Edwards,.