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San Diego County is launching aggressive efforts to counter climate change, with a new climate action plan and a sweeping sustainability plan designed to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2035.
The County Board of Supervisors received reports on both projects Wednesday and discussed the balancing act required to slash carbon emissions while preserving jobs and expanding housing.
Both plans must “address the urgency of climate change and the urgency of putting housing in the right place,” said Board Chair Nathan Fletcher. “It’s amazing if you address those correctly, how those two can align.”
County officials hope to craft plans that will enable San Diegans to live and work in close proximity, creating housing while eliminating lengthy commutes. To achieve that, it will be essential to develop cost-effective regulations, they said.
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Poor communities suffer more from extreme heat in cities, UCSD study finds
The analysis revealed that for 71% of those counties, land surface temperatures in communities with higher rates of poverty can be up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer Author: City News Service Updated: 4:19 PM PDT July 13, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. Low-income neighborhoods with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast majority of populous U.S. counties, according to a UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy study released today.
The researchers, whose findings are published in the journal Earth s Future, analyzed remotely sensed land surface temperature measurements of 1,056 U.S. counties which have 10 or more census districts.