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In conjunction with the release last week of the Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan by Governor Romney and Commonwealth Development Secretary Douglas Foy, I am pleased to announce the formal release of the Massachusetts State Sustainability Agency Sustainability Planning and Implementation Guide and the Massachusetts Greenhouse Gas Inventory for State Agencies.
The Governor's Climate Protection Plan calls on state government to take a leadership role in helping the Commonwealth to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and 10% below 1990 levels by 2020. As part of that effort, the Governor has called on state agencies to reduce their own emissions by 25% by 2012 and introduce and expand a host of efforts, including but not limited to, expanding green building efforts, increasing energy efficiency, reducing waste, and using renewable energy and alternative fuels.
To ensure that these goals are met, the State Sustainability Program, created in 2002, and member agencies developed and released today the first edition of the Agency Sustainability Guide. This guide contains information and recommendations on eight different environmental categories, and a road map to help state agencies develop sustainability plans and programs. Additionally, the State Sustainability Program, housed at the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, prepared and released today the first comprehensive inventory of Massachusetts agency greenhouse gas emissions.
The Climate Change Protection Plan can be downloaded at www.mass.gov/ocd.
The Agency Sustainability Guide and Greenhouse Gas Inventory can be accessed at www.mass.gov/envir/sustainable.
Please feel free to forward any comments or questions my way.
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Eric Friedman
Director of State Sustainability
Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
617-626-1034
617-626-1181 fax
eric.friedman@state.ma.us
www.mass.gov/envir/sustainable
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