When done with an eye towards reparative justice, we can reduce emissions and undo past environmental, economic, and social harms inflicted on low-income and marginalized communities. The Commonwealth needs to focus on the fundamentals of building net zero infrastructure. Given challenges in local and regional implementation over the past several years, our findings can be easily extrapolated to the state. In our recent assessment of Boston’s climate action plans for the Boston Foundation, we found that Boston is at risk of not being able to achieve its net-zero 2050 goal. Rather than new legislation, it is now the time for the Healey administration and municipalities from Boston to Easthampton to lay the groundwork for an unprecedented transformation across several fronts. Given this history, it is unlikely that there is political appetite now for negotiating new and more ambitious legislation, nor should this be the focus of state action. The delicately negotiated 2021 bill was the Commonwealth’s first major climate legislation since the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act.
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