simultaneously -- as you can see, over 450,000 vehicled registered in the city and over 135,000 commutes in daily and with 45,000 network company vehicles operating on our roads, it's quite challenging. at the same time, the medium and heavy duty vehicle sector, as well as our neighbors and residents in the multivehicle dwellings, face a particular challenge in vehicle charging in particular. speaking of multivehicle families, their multibuildings have challenges -- as a result, they really depend on the publicly accessible charging network. we have over 10,500 electrical

vehicles. we know that we can expand this public charging network particularly in the gaps you see in the map known as charging deserts. [please stand by]

-- specific actions in six strategic areas that we'll meade to implement -- we'll need to implement that goal. and electricity is the fuel of the future and we need to implement it in existing modes. last slide -- oops. >> it was your last slide. [laughter]. >> so i'll make it up. so renewable electricity, will get us to a net-zero system which is crucial to become a net carbon city. and our 2030 goals are 35% of certification and sustainable modes will help to get us there. in closing with the necessary capital, political and public support, we can meet these goals and along with our complementary goal of zero traffic fatalities to not only achieve our 2030 goal but to improve the lives of all. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chu. that gets us through electricity and transportation and we still

have buildings. barry cooper? from the department of the environment. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisor mandelman and the members of the committee. i'll quickly take you through buildings. so the challenge with buildings is in many ways similar to transport. how do we get to zero emissions? and that's a pretty straightforward formula. we need to make sure that our building stock is energy efficient, that we have 100% renewable electricity and we have tools to do that, that we have heard about today. and we're ensuring that we're using it in our built environment. so how will we make progress on that simple formula? a key policy opportunity is a policy signal from the city directly communicated to the city favoring all electric buildings in support of meeting its zero emission goals. so the introduction of today's proposal to ensure that the city installs no new natural gas using infrastructure in either the major alteration or the new construction of its own

facilities is a key first step. and then the broader question of how do we get there city-wide in our new construction and our built environment is the subject of a task force that mayor breed has called for that we're working and preparing for and the outcome of that we'll talk about on this today. pardon me. it's important now to not just talk about where we need to go but what we need to get through to get there. so there's some significant challenges to making this transition and there's reason yes our built environment isn't all electric today. one of the key elements is the california energy code. that is the instrument of a great deal of the energy efficiency benefits that we have as san franciscoians and a key resource for us but it's been designed and improved over a 40-year period to discourage the development of new electric power plants because that was our greatest concern in the 197 is. so we're working with the energy commission and they've very much recognized the need to support

the decarbonization of buildings as the primary goal. but it does take time to make the changes that are necessary at the state level. and every building that goes through the planning and permitting process in san francisco has to comply with the energy code. so we can't push things that would involve the -- that don't have a straightforward way for compliance for all buildings. next, because -- sorry -- commonly used gas to supply most thermal loads to wate heat our r and to support that transition and to improve their comfort and embrace this path to a clean, efficient future. and the key example would be looking at two sectors -- affordable housing, and a lot of the best examples of building stock leading the way is actually coming from our local developers. and because they're able to find all-electric paths that were efficient and didn't increase their first costs, they've committed to new construction such as the macy veteran department currently built in

treasure island, committing to all electric already. similarly, the city has a total of 18 major projects that are currently going towards being all electric, and the southeast community center is one key example. and the task force, the task before the private sector -- the public/private task force to decarbonize and have a plan to decarbonize our built environment is a roadmap, a specific step-by-step process, with the zero-emissions road map that has the actions that are necessary to meet those ends. so we're looking forward to that to work together. thank you for your time. >> thank you, mr. cooper. still on buildings we have lisa fisher from planning. >> hello, supervisors. thank you for declaring this climate emergency. our own commission president has urged us strongly -- in fact, she was recently quoted as

telling us to stop the bureaucratic bullshit and actually to address this crisis. we want to partner with you to find meaningful solutions. the planning department -- i forgot to tell you that i'm lisa fisher -- sorry, sorry. the planning department has identified four unique avenues to supporting this climate action, connecting land use and design with the spaces between the buildings, the buildings themselves, and transportation. to reduce our emissions and to increase renewables. first, we have early interface with projects and working with them from inception that offers key opportunities to enhancing the outcomes and integrates these goals, sometimes before their requirements. for example, through the planning designer review process of major developments we can enhance resource efficiency and get those all-electric buildings. through integrated planning, partnerships and funding, we develop comprehensive area plans. and this is our way of helping

to direct growth to help amplify the environmental and climate benefits. the central plans have pushed beyond the current regulations in timely areas, all new buildings will be 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity and have solar p.v. and living roofs. we, of course, have a multifaceted toolbox, including regulatory construct like the planning code where we support positive aims through better roofs, better streets and urban design guidelines and the transportation demand management program and more. we were recently the first city to get rid of minimum parking requirements. and then we have non-regulatory tools where we can push and support climate through things like the plant finder tool, where we get a greener and more biodiverse city that also supports climate sequestration. of course, we intervene and inconvene several interagency efforts on design review and streets and buildings.

how we guide and implement our growth is critical to meeting our climate goals and ensuring a diverse and equitiable and more inclusive and affordable community. through these avenues for positive influence, we are directly influencing all of the pipeline of residential and commercial development with our partners at oewd and ocii. we believe that our city has an opportunity to enhance and to strengthen our buildings, but we need to do so quicker. we look forward to working with the board and our fellow agencies and the development community and the public at large to turn our opportunities into challenges, to better coordinate our growth and development, to balance our needs, to maximize the benefits through all of the pavement that we turn, and engage the community, and increase funding for important projects. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. our next -- next up we have from the department of public health,

the talk about health and equity. >> good afternoon, i am dr. argagon, with the city and county of san francisco and with the health division at the department of public health. i am a native san franciscoian and born and raised in the mission district and i live in district 8 where we raise three children, currently 18 through 23 years old. so this issue affects the future of my children and their children. i'm going to borrow some text from the american public health association and adapted to san francisco. the health of san francisco residents and visitors faces two great challenges -- climate change and racial health and equities. and climate change affects the health of every community in san francisco. beyond its direct health impacts, climate change increases food insecurity and worsens air pollution and reduces our access to clean air and water, and displaces people from their homes and causes widespread social and economic

disruption. according to the world bank, climate change threatens our fragile existence on this planet. racial health inequities and climate change are deeply interconnected. climate change acts as a threat multiplier, exacerbating poverty, racism, environmental degredation and political instability. and climate change is a problem rooted in our -- in structural racism and systems of economic exclusion and individualistic values of our society and economy. eliminating racial health inequities and resolving climate change requires a radical approach with policy and systems change and taking on the powerful interests that put profits before people and impede the transformational change needed to achieve racial and economic equity and a healthy climate for all. fortunately, many climate solutions offer huge health

benefits. in fact, many strategies to reduce climate pollution are the same strategie strategies that t implement to reduce racial health inequity. yes, it's a climate health emergency, and the health and well-being of the communities that we serve are in danger. as witnessed by the increased occurrence of disasters and wildfires and extreme weather. our actions now will affect the magnitude of climate impacts to our most vulnerable communities and how well they recover in the aftermath of climate related disasters. the department of public health has a critical role in addressing this as an urgent threat. the key message that i want to emphasize to us is that as a city, as human beings fiz physiologically and our infrastructure is not acclimated to changes in temperature. while our overall temperature will increase, we'll see more cool days and hot days, with the extreme temperatures that are going to be our biggest problem. i want to end with three key messages -- climate change

disproportionately impacts the low-income communities and communities of color. and health inequities share the same root causes, and addressing climate change and health inequities requires transformational changes in our systems and communities. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, dr. argon. and i think that our last departmental presentation is from heather green of the city administrator's office. hello. >> good afternoon, supervisors. heather green with capital planning. i have no slides. but i'm here to just say thank you to all of the departments working on this and especially to the director rafael for all of the information that she's provided us in the partnership between our two departments. so we look forward to all of the climate action strategy work ahead. one thing that we know that we have heard in lots of different

ways today from lots of different departments is about the fact that we'll need to invest and work differently. and we need to make sure that we have our priorities straight and we spend money where we need to spend it so we can achieve all of these goals. that is our office's area of expertise for the city. and we did something very similar years back for the seawall, we gathered experts together around a table and introduce aid working group strategy for the financing of that multigenerational need. and that's something that we look forward to doing on this front as well. so we'll look forward to that work and to showcasing what we plan to do in the 10-year capital plan. just another place that people can look to see how the city is thinking and that we really are finding the korea sources and dedicating what we need to make progress. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, miss green. director rafael. >> so thank you. and to wrap up a couple thoughts

-- you -- i think that anyone who listened to this presentation would be left with understanding that city staff, city departments, elected officials, are all fully committed and understand the importance of our work. so i want to thank you for giving us the opportunity for sharing our thoughts with you, whether it's the department of public health, the airport, the m.t.a., the planning department, the p.u.c., we are all here because we believe that this is the most important work. when we look at what we need to do as a city, and the city staff going forward, we start with the acceleration and the focus that this hearing has offered us. and we understand that our first task is to update the underpinning policies that focus our attention and set our goals. those are in statute and they're chapter 9 of the environment code. so we will be working in the next few months through next

year to update chapter 9. and we will come back too with those proposals. at the end after working on chapter 9, what we ultimately need to end up with is what we are calling a paris climate action strategy. and the reason that paris compliant is important is because it's pointing us in the direction of equity, inclusiveness, and making sure that the most vulnerable among us are the first on our thought process and the first on our resource allocation. so i'm so grateful that the city administrator has put her office forward and saying that she will help us with the hard work of figuring out how we will fund the recommendations that are going to arise through these two processes. so at the end of the day as we look forward and as we envision the city we want, and as we understand that san francisco is indeed a city who rehearses the future, and we know that cities around the world are looking to us for leadership, we are also

looking to them for inspiration and to learning and we know that it's the leadership of our community, the leadership of our elected officials and the commitment of city staff that is going to be our best hope for the future. so thank you for this opportunity. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, director rafael. so -- and thank you to all of the city staff who have presented and presented briefly, concisely and effectively this afternoon. i'm going to read some names and i ask that when you hear your name that you stand up, you go stand in line with your right of the room. and you will have two minutes. you should feel no need to repeat other speakers. and i'm going to just start calling. joanie i are eisen, and zach zubin and josh cliff and denise louis, and milo weatherall. and christopher peterson. victoria gu.

bob hall. sharea greenwa well everyonld. and ellen coivisto. and i have more cards that i will read once these folks have -- once we have gotten through these folks. and it would be great if folks -- if you have these blue cards that you can get in the front of the room, if you could bring them up and i can call your name. so, okay, let's start. joanie eisen. >> okay, yes. i'm an artist and a long-time s.f. resident and a board member of s.f. tomorrow and the citizens' climate lobby, and with the democratic club. thank you, supervisors, for recognizing the crisis by declaring an emergency. and thanks s.f. environment for the formidable action starting point of focus 2030, and all of your other emission reducing

programs. and thanks to the other departments for their own efforts to reduce the emissions. and i do appreciate the cooperation that i heard about today among agencies. but it is time for all agencies -- all agencies to coordinate these climate efforts instead of operating in isolation to avoid needless competition and diewpgdz. duplication. i ask the mayor to enforce this. and it's up to the board to find the enormous money that will takes to decarbonize all buildings and transportation to provide 100% clean electricity to protect non-affluent people from being forced out for non-compliance with any burdensome law and to create clean energy jobs that pay a living wage. these funds must be in place before enacting any law that would harm individuals who can't afford to comply. the cost of inaction will be far more than the cost of timely action. we need to think long term in

generational, not election cycles. for everyone's children and their children's children, the money must be found and spent now before it's too late. greenhouse gas emissions don't respect borders. the city must set an example for other cities to follow and to join in planning and regional summit for september and urge nations to step up. and we must pay attention to successes in other localities and try it here. and it's a pay-as-you-save program for energy upgrades to buildings and open to all utility customers, business, residential, regardless of income or credit score or renter status. and including california... >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, denise louis here. i'll start with my conclusion. i urge you to mitigate negative impacts of climate change on our

unirrigated trees and on biodiversity in general. by adopting calfar vegetation guidelines and requiring all city agent agencies to embrace r resolution. about half of the city-owned trees are in our parks. rec and park says that it's unmanaged unirrigated trees are fine, but can we show what's on the screen here? so one of the photos shows -- was taken in 2014. and the other one in 2019, a five-year difference. and the one is more green and the other is more recent and is more brown. okay, so neighboring residents

and they have indicated a fear of catastrophic wildfire to rec and park who responds that we will not remove the tall grass and the trees are fine and we only recommend that you have a 30-foot defensible space around your home. i urge you to require that city agencies adopt calfar guidelines, including spacing between trees and fire safe plant choices. i further urge you to require the city agencies to embrace the biodiversity solution, however, the plants in rec and park's nursery are overwhelmingly not native to san francisco. we have known for years that birds, insects and native plants are declining in population and species due to human activity and climate change. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker.

>> before we go into any discuss i want to make it clear to you that you talk about the most vulnerable people? the most vulnerable people are the people that's homeless. you got over 88,011 people who are homeless out in san francisco. and a review of that file is the additional 30% on top of that 8,011 homeless. those are the most vulnerable people who are out suffering behind these pollutant conditions that you claim thaw want to rem -- that you want to remedy. and you are talking about contamination and areas that are vulnerable to unfair discriminatory practices and the environmental situations? i ain't heard nothing about the shipyard. you got cancer causing radioactive material that has wiped out thousands of my generation and future generations because of that radioactive goddamned cancer-causing material. you've got the same kind of contaminated material out there

at treasure island. but yet you're building brand-new apartment complexes out there and you want to protect the environment? come on, who in the hell you think that you're fooling with that top-class professional bullshit? you've got a lot of nerve. and about you taxing the people that are traveling and commuting back and forth and back and forth to their jobs and using uber and lyft to get to their jobs and you want to tax them and you are going to call that "congestion" and blame them for it? when the truth of the matter is that the department of transportation and caltra in everyone s is the reason that you've got that congestion downtown because caltrans and the department o department of n use t.n.t. explosives and dynamite and blew up that bay bridge. and after blowing up the last section of the bay bridge you give a press conference and saying that you want to tax gasoline drivers in order to maintain our roads and our bridges. you are a goddamned liar and you just got finished using dynamite to blow up the goddamned bay

bridge. and you have them side-by-side with each other... (indiscernible). >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wright. your time is expired. >> (indiscernible). >> clerk: mr. white, your time is expired and allow the next speaker. thank you. >> you talking about -- (indiscernible) you let them talk. >> supervisor mandelman: next speaker. >> (indiscernible). >> clerk: next speaker, please. next speaker. >> hi, my name is zach zuben and i'm speaking on behalf of urban environmentalists and we submitted a petition and signed by more than 79,000 residents to

have in-fill housing as a climate solution. and all of the departments that put together the report, it was great work, but housing is something that was not included. we would like it to be included. local researchers found that in-fill housing could be one of the top measures to reduce emissions, global emissions, in the 2030 timeframe for cities like san francisco. and that's because we already have less driving and more compact buildings and cleaner electricity and mild climate compared to the suburbs and other areas of the country. and so we support accounting for the reductions in global emissions, resulting from people moving into san francisco, not just reducing emissions from within the city from existing residents. and as the city proceeds with these other decarbonization measures that the benefits that allow more people to live here will only be enhanced for the

climate. most of the city's existing buildings are older and they lack air conditioning which recent studies have shown are much more expensive to electrify, so new construction is an opportunity particularly there. and we'd like to applaud the -- the focused report on more sustainable transportation modes that san francisco can support. and just want to finally say that, of course, equity and affordability should be, you know, connected to all of these goals. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is josh clip, an attorney and a san francisco resident and a forest advocate. i want to thank you for calling out the importance of planting trees. san francisco has one of the smallest urban canopies of any major city in the united states. and we know this, we have an urban forest plan that called for the planning of trees of

2,500 trees per year. since we rolled that out, we have failed every year and last year we added a total of one tree to our urban canopy. and part of the problem is the lack of budget. even in this year's fiscal budget, next year's budget for this city, we barely have enough money to keep up with the rate of removals, let alone growing our urban canopy. and the only reason that money was put in because of the good work of the board of supervisors and the public outrage when it was discovered that wouldn't be in there. and the department of the environment, it would be wonderful if they would add an f.t.e. who is actually dedicated to urban forestry. to the san francisco public utilities commission, in the last 10 years you have removed 475 trees and planted 39. and to the san francisco rec and park, we say that your rules, and the law that governs how you are in the city has no accountability for your tree removal and planting. furthermore, rec park doesn't keep any records of tree

plantings and removal. and to buildings and planning, i would point out that we don't have the luxury anymore of taking out trees when they don't fit our aesthetic design. building and planning needs to be doing everything they can to preserve the trees that we already have. trees eat this polluting carbon that we're struggling with and they clean our air from the wildfires and they support the ecology that we need so desperately to -- in our circle of life. we don't need fancy tech to solve this problem when mother nature has gifted us the perfect climate change ally and warrior which is our urban forests, thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, next speaker. >> i am miel weatherall and i represent generational climate, a youth organization whose goal is to combine environmental action to protect our future. the climate emergency in san francisco is only going to get worse. all homes built on the landfill

will be inundated with sea water. and greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to the city and, thus, the city of san francisco must mitigate climate change by reducing the emissions of the city and endorsing the green new deal. (please stand by).

>> supervisor mandelman: i'm going to call some more names, so additional people with lineup. robin cooper, daniel hara. rachel sullivan, rocky chow,

leslie goldberg, michael goldberg, raul aldape, laurie green, martin mackerel, martha harward. >> clerk: i just want to remind the public that applause is not allowed in the chamber. you may use spirit fingers or the thumb up thing. >> supervisor mandelman: go ahead. >> i've been in san francisco four years. i'm proud to be in a city that leads in climate change. i'm here because san francisco's climate action plan needs to address the full scope of the climate emergency.

currently, it does not address emissions resulting from the food we eat. it's not enough for us to strive for net zero emissions here if a substantial amount of what we import comes from outside the city. we also know that animal agriculture extremely sickens animals, the climate emergency demands radical change from us. we have under 12 years to keep from warming 1.3° celsius.

for the past decade, the u.n. has urged us to reduce emissions to keep within safe environmental limits. germany banned meat in meals served at official government functions. new york city this year passed their green new deal which banned meets and slashed beef in meals in industrial and city run facilities. if new york city can do it, san francisco can do more. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> hello. my name is christopher peterson, resident of district 7. there really is one astonishing admission, which is land use. san francisco by its climate,

walkability, that work is one of the most beneficial places, so for san francisco to perpetuate the exclusionary low density code that's much of the city really is a climate irresponsibility. it effectively forces people to locate in places that have more extreme climate, that are more automobile dependent, so you're effectively driving people in places such as -- you're doing no favors to the client by driving people places such as fairfield and fresno.

so i encourage the city to significantly increase the amounts of housing, especially affordable housing that is provided in the lower density areas of the city that none e nonetheless do have good transit. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> first of all, i want to thank the department of the environment and the supervisors for your resolve about this, and i'll speak to you, supervisor mandelman, because they all left, and tell you what to tell them. we're giving you a tall order here. i want to assure you here that you're not alone. you see a room full of everybody's constituents.

you would see more of us here if the meeting were not during working hours, hint, hint. we will be back and we will not listening with great interest as you continue with this process. which means you've got help with this. you've got every citizen that you can mobilize to help in every step of the development. you've got cities around the bay working on solutions to this problem. you've got departments full of experts that can be tapped and united to work on this together. i know sometimes that takes work. you've got a region, you've got a state, all of which are declaring climate emergency, working on the climate emergency, and then, there's the money. it's going to cost big bucks. i'm thinking a bond issue, but that needs to be worked out.

>> supervisor mandelman: i will say that not all of my colleagues are here in the room, that i guarantee you that this hearing is on in every single office. some supervisors are watching it, and certainly their aides are. i don't want you to feel like you are talking into the void. you're talking to me, hello, but you're not just talking to me, either. >> good afternoon. i'm an organizer with the democratic socialists of america as well as a clean tech advocate. first of all, i want to thank you, supervisor for declaring a climate emergency, putting out this report. i'm glad you understand the severity of this issue. that said, i do have a couple of concerns with the way this

played out. the language on equity in the report was nearly nonexistent. there was some of how the projects planned would be good from an equity lens, but there is no plan to implement these plans from an equity standard. there's communities that have borne and continue to bear the cost of climate change and they've not benefited, and they must be front and center in this process. i recognize this is an early document and some of this might come out, but this is critical stuff. there must be an open and democratic process to suggest what the next steps are. but in any case, people of color, communities on the front line, labor, they all have to be involved from the beginning

and at especially step in the process. my second concern, i don't know if this is under the purview of s.f. department of the environment, but this is a completely prevention oriented report, and there is no resiliency and impact. we need to put any climate plan resources towards resiliency -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for sticking around. this year, the u.n.s intergovernmental sign policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystems warned this year, as least 1 million species are at

risk of going extinct if we don't save them. it's mainly caused by habitat degradation which is worsened by human caused climate change. the current san francisco street tree inventory shows that less than 1% of the city's plantings are native -- or less than 1% of the city's plantings are native. that means there's about 174,000 nonnative tree here. well, isn't a tree just a tree? well, no. unfortunately to wildlife, nonnative trees are unfortunately just a statue. our local caterpillars, for

instance, cannot overcome the chemical defenses that a nonnative deco tree uses. due to dozens of years of inappropriate planting, san francisco is inadvertently starving wildlife. the good news is we can do something. the food web requires planting trees in the right places in san francisco. exotic trees are beautiful, but as san francisco experiences climate change -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank

you. >> my name is lynn butcher. i came here to san francisco with my ex-husband 60 years ago, and raised a couple of children over the years here. i now have grandchildren locally. i am in senior housing just at the edges of the tenderloin in public housing. there's no air conditioning in my building. none of the things like solar panels that i advocated for for many, many years are on the roof. i'm going to go buy myself a fan tonight so that i can live a little bit more comfortably

in this warming climate but that's what it is when i'm 80 years old. thank you so much. i just wish we had rushed into the electric vehicles that i advocated for over the years a little sooner. all the volunteering that i've done here for the sierra club and project open hand and all of those things, you know -- and then, they stole everything i own. i do not understand your reasoning, i truly do not. there should have been solar panels on a four-year-old building, and i would like to see you take a more active role in instituting those things that would truly make san francisco an electric city.

as it is, my pg&e bill says that i don't have electric heat, even though i turned off my heat, and in fact there's an electrical appliance in the room. it's illogical, it's -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name's ellen, and i'm here every wednesday morning to strike for the planet. you guys have gotten a lot of

stuff from me so i'm not going to go into great detail. i strongly support. this is a nice start. drastic when compared to business as usual, but really itty bitty compared to what we need to do. we have ten years catastrophic climate crisis. talking is nice, but action is vital, and it's long overdue. everyone must act in every way possible now, there is no other option. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> i'm here as a member of

extinction rebellion. there's no mention in this report that it is pg&e that has fought and undermined sf clean power while they have gone for a power grab. now that they're a business known for 100 deaths and unfathomable loss of pets and homes. people need to know that we are the only city in the united states that is required by federal law to have public power. under this law called the raker act of 1913, the city of san francisco is required to use all the water and power from hetch hetchy. if you are not aware that pg&e has stolen our rights for over 100 years, you are not alone. at any time, the feds have the

right to take back hetch hetchy because pg&e continues to steal our power. there has been much talk in these halls to finally abide by the raker act -- it is up to us to lead the way. to secure clean energy, pg&e must go. we need to lead the way and make our entire power grid clean as soon as possible. the cpuc has always ruled in collusion with pg&e. their meeting is this thursday in oakland to address the bailout. frankly it's appalling that the other members of this committee -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank

you. next speaker. >> my name is michael goldberg. i'm an organizer with the grassroots organization compassionate bay, which is dedicated to the protection of the environment and animals. i am shocked that dealing with animals and water is absent from your climate plan, and i'm talking about meat products, turkeys, chicken, fish, and other meat products sold in san francisco. is it possible that no one creating the report today is aware that animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change and to the major destruction of our environment? san francisco is not contained in a bubble. when a san franciscan eats a hamburger that affects the area where that animal was raised. it is important that you

understand that animal agriculture's global impact on the climate is more than the impact of global transportation according to several he nighted nations reports. the city of san francisco has pledged to deal with the climate emergency by doing what needs to be done to keep the temperature increases below 2° celsius. that cannot be done without dealing with animal agriculture. recently, the temperature in ind-i can india reached 120°, killing multiple people and animals. species are, like, being wiped out because of climate change. over 1 million californians don't have drinkable water because of animal agriculture. this is in the central valley. this is a fact. people in the central valley are getting asthma because of the pollution from animal agriculture that goes into the

air. i hope that san francisco will add animal agriculture to what it's going to -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: next speaker. >> amy sullivan rip, a, and i'd in san francisco for the past 43 years and served as a teacher for the past 26 years. i've heard a lot in the plan about carbon emissions but nothing about animal agriculture. so according to the world economic forum, the beef and dairy industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the world's biggest oil companies. and then, also, i found that many people don't know that

methane gas produced by cows is 26 times more damaging to the ozone layer than carbon emissions. meat and dairy industries also contribute significantly to land, water, and air pollution, so i think that's really a big piece that's missing from the whole plan. if we are to create a space in which a bold and necessary change can occur, we need to at least attempt educating the public of the extremely negative consequences of eating beef and advocating for a plant-based diet.

the question that comes to my mind are why are we continuing to subsidize industries that harm us. just in summation, i wanted to say reducing beef and dairy might be achieved through education, taxes, subsidies -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello and good evening, everyone. my name is rocky, and i'm part of compassionate bay. in april 2019, san francisco had passed an emergency climate prediction given the fact that we have less than a decade to mitigate our greenhouse gas

emissions before affecting changing weather patterns, and especially here in san francisco where we are susceptible to sea level rising. we have taken steps to curb carbon emissions. one example is by cutting carbon emission from the transportation sector by 2040. although admirable and ambitious, we can do much more. animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gases. that is more than the transportation sector, so take your cars, buses, planes, boats combined. despite this mind boggling statistics, we are still not addressing animal agriculture in the same light that we are the electric industry.

it is also an inherently cruel industry, and as well as subjugaiting people of color and mental health due to the nature of slaughter housework. we need to raise awareness of how much animal agriculture is tied to climate change and our collective well-being. i'm born and i see raed in san francisco and as a young person who will be around for a long time -- well at least i hope to be around for a long time, i would like to live in a world where we -- not only myself but future generations around the world can live without worrying about sea level rising among other extremes. i want a world where san francisco -- [inaudible]

[inaudibl >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. i'm going to call some more names. alexander taylor. tracey seeger. alana engel. eric matursh. josh lee. molly morabito, and eric with s.f. transit riders. >> my name is daniel tejara. over the past month it's become clear to me that we all know what we have to do to reverse climate change. we need to cleanup the environment, we need to stop the expansion of natural gas infrastructure and replace

natural gas appliances with natural ones. all of this costs money, which gives me hope. it's purely the amount of money we need to solve this problem is terrifyingly large. the amount of money we'll need is large, but none of it compares that we'll have to pay for our own inaction, so where should we start? first, if we have an effort that's going to be successful, we need to act at a city level. second, we should move our simplest lever and cleanup our

city so the city is powered by clean electricity by 2025. and third, i'd like to ask the board to establish the funding measures to pay for the requirements called for in the report. we all know what we have to do. it's time we put our money where our mouth is. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is robin cooper. i'm a psychiatrist here in san francisco, and i represent climate psychiatry alliance and citizen climate san francisco and i'm a member of the coalition before you today. i bring the often unheard voice of the mental health community to this discussion, one of the most vulnerable populations that are and will bear the extreme adverse effects of climate change.

we in the mental health and addiction world know that the first step is admitting you have a problem. these represent coming out of denial and facing the gruesome truths and challenges ahead of us. yet these are just the beginning. taking the lofty declarations is hard work, and we must balance not losing our side of our commitment to social justice and care for the underserved. although focus 2030 focuses on the much needed mitigation goals, it does not address the equally necessary adaptation strategies so essential to building resiliency protecting our communities from the

already abnormal health impacts. we must have coordinated, collaborative efforts, all -- much due respect to the experts here, but they must work in collaboration. we cannot tolerate departments working in silos, and the price, we must face the true cost. massive funding beyond what we are currently imagining. this cannot be done and musting public fund -- must be public funding. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm with the sunrise project and you have the joint letter we signed on to in your hearing packet. i want to join on with the people that spoke