Between 2003 and 2019, Californians reduced their carbon emissions by 65 million tons. Then came a terrible year for fires in the state.
Remember all those wildfires up and down the state in 2020? They erased our gains in reducing carbon emissions over the previous 16 years.UCLA researchers found that between 2003 and 2019 Californians reduced their carbon emissions by 65 million tons. But the wildfires of 2020 released 127 million metric tons in that year alone.of the California Air Resources Board says plans to reduce emissions by 2020 did not account for increase in wildfires.
"The target that was set in 2006, focused on the root cause of climate change, which is energy and combustion of fossil fuels and the state," Sahota explained."What we didn't know then and what we've learned now is that the climate impacts have accelerated."Without all the carbon emission reductions leading up the 2020 wildfires, that much more carbon would have entered the atmosphere.A law passed over the summer aims to make California carbon neutral by 2045.
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