Overview
- Mayor Michelle Wu introduced the plan Monday, setting a 50% emissions cut by 2030 from 2005 levels and a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
- The next five years focus on implementation with an all‑of‑city approach that enlists residents, nonprofits, universities, hospitals, and businesses.
- The roadmap targets the biggest sources of pollution in buildings, transportation, and energy, with Wu promoting more bus use, walking, and biking and a larger supply of renewable power.
- City officials say climate justice guides spending, with projects that cool hot neighborhoods, add green space to handle stormwater, and build coastal defenses against flooding.
- Boston reports a 26.7% drop in emissions by 2024 to about 5.5 million metric tons, which leaves a steep path to roughly 4.5 million metric tons needed to stay on track for 2030, and the city links the faster push to more than $105 million in rescinded federal climate funds.