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San Antonio City Council passed the SA Climate Ready Plan in 2019 after two years of study, a plan that was met with support in some quarters and opposition in others. While the plan generally aligns with the 2015 Paris Climate agreement and the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, it lacks hard deadlines for specific measures to meet ...
Related: From Drought To Flood in Two Weeks: Welcome to San Antonio. Additionally, climate change threatens San Antonio’s economy. Intense heat, drought, and strong storms – another consequence of a warming climate – disrupt supply chains, damage property and infrastructure, and results in missed work days due to employee health impacts.
The main goal of the city’s climate action plan is to make San Antonio carbon-neutral by 2050. Interim goals set in 2019 to help the city meet this goal include adding more renewable sources to San Antonio’s energy mix, reducing building energy consumption, reducing vehicle-related pollution and promoting local biodiversity.
San Antonio is the only big city in Texas without a PACE program. Much of the plan focuses on ideas to adapt to a changing climate, which have proven less controversial. Ideas include adding more trees and green space and making sure San Antonio’s drainage and flood control systems are properly sized for the storms of the future.
The City of San Antonio is already taking action. In 2019, the city adopted a climate action and adaptation plan called SA Climate Ready. This initiative was designed to combat the present and future challenges of climate change, in adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement.
The city’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan was adopted in 2019, and was described by city leaders as a road map for how to make good on a resolution that council members passed in June 2017 committing San Antonio to the goals of the Paris Agreement, an international accord meant to stave off the worst effects of rapid global warming.
The phenomenon has been mapped out in San Antonio showing that most of the hot spots are located within Loop 1604, increasingly so within Loop 410. Earlier this summer, the San Antonio Report looked at which parts of the city are most affected by heat according to climate experts, with a heat map created by Climate Central showing that 67% of ...
However, if the entire world does nothing, life will get much hotter and harder in San Antonio over the coming decades, according to climate projections. By 2100, the city could see another 48 to 94 days per year when temperatures top 100 degrees, as well as annual rainfall totals 3 to 4 inches less than historical averages, according to the plan.
On Thursday, the West San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors approved a resolution supporting the City’s revised climate plan. The chamber held a press conference Friday at which City officials praised its members for being the first local business chamber to officially green-light the plan.
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