The October 15 Environmental Issues Forum sponsored by Joint Legislative Air & Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee will feature a presentation by Brian Hill, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, on its stakeholder-driven Climate Roadmap for Pennsylvania.

The Climate Change Roadmap for Pennsylvania was developed by PEC based on the input from a broad group of stakeholders from industry and agriculture to environmental advocates.

That consensus-driven report contains specific recommendations for what Pennsylvania needs to do to reduce its carbon emissions enough to have real impact.

Nearly 40 recommendations for reducing climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions were included in the Climate Change Roadmap, which was developed by PEC with the help of business, farm, energy generation and environmental stakeholders.

Specifically, the Roadmap:

· Sets a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2025, from 2000 levels;

· Recommends capping greenhouse gas emissions and joining a nationwide system that allows the trading of credits to promote least-cost solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions;

· Updates the state’s 2003 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions so we have a good foundation to work from;

· Establishes a model, based on the inventory, that will help us look at the impact of alternatives for reducing greenhouse gases and their impact on achieving our goal; and

· Makes 38 specific recommendations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in several sectors: energy supply, transportation, residential, commercial and industrial buildings, agriculture, forestry, land use, on carbon sequestration and more.

The presentation will begin at noon in Room 205 of the Ryan Building.

Rep. Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) serves as Chair and Sen. Ray Musto (D-Luzerne) serves as Vice-Chair.

Video Blog: PA Environmental Council Unveils Climate Roadmap

10/12/2007