Oregon Global Warming Commission to Meet Virtually on April 16
SALEM – The Oregon Global Warming Commission will meet Friday, April 16, 2021. The public meeting will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. online.
At this meeting, the Commission will hear presentations from invited panels to inform its work to establish a natural and working lands goal, in response to its charge in Governor Brown’s Executive Order 20-04. The panels will address the following key questions related to this effort, as outlined here:
How ambitious should Oregon be in setting the natural and working lands goal?
What type of goal should we recommend (emissions-reduction based, activity-based, or both)?
How detailed do we want the land sector goal to be?
What should the relationship be between the land sector goal and the state’s existing emissions reduction goals?
How frequently should we update the inventory and goal and what criteria should we use to inform any such change?
What types of programs, investments, and policies should we recommend be prioritized to achieve the goal?
What should the consequences be of not meeting the land sector goal?
Additional meeting information, including how to listen in, is available on the Commission’s website.
Members of the public are welcome to provide written comments to the Commission through the contact form online or by email (oregon.GWC@oregon.gov). Those received by 12:00 p.m. on April 9, 2021 will be shared with Commission members in advance of the meeting. There will be an opportunity for additional public comment at the meeting. To provide comment, members of the public will need to sign up at the beginning of the meeting.
The agenda for the meeting will be available at www.keeporegoncool.org/meetings. Additional meeting materials will be posted by April 9, 2021.
If you need special accommodations to participate in the meeting, please contact Linda Ross at 503-378-6874 or at linda.ross@oregon.gov.