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 years fiscal budget, next years 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 wouldnt 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 FranciscoPublic 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 doesnt keep any records of tree plantings and removal. And to buildings and planning, i would point out that we dont have the luxury anymore of taking out trees when they dont 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 were 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 dont 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 im 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. Ive been in San Francisco four years. Im proud to be in a city that leads in Climate Change. Im here because San Franciscos 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. Its 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 thats 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 youre effectively driving people in places such as youre 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 ill speak to you, supervisor mandelman, because they all left, and tell you what to tell them. Were giving you a tall order here. I want to assure you here that youre not alone. You see a room full of everybodys 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 youve got help with this. Youve got every citizen that you can mobilize to help in every step of the development. Youve got cities around the bay working on solutions to this problem. Youve got departments full of experts that can be tapped and united to work on this together. I know sometimes that takes work. Youve got a region, youve got a state, all of which are declaring Climate Emergency, working on the Climate Emergency, and then, theres the money. Its going to cost big bucks. Im 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 dont want you to feel like you are talking into the void. Youre talking to me, hello, but youre not just talking to me, either. Good afternoon. Im 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. Im 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. Theres communities that have borne and continue to bear the cost of Climate Change and theyve 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 dont 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 dont save them. Its 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 citys plantings are native or less than 1 of the citys plantings are native. That means theres about 174,000 nonnative tree here. Well, isnt 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 exhusband 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. Theres 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. Im going to go buy myself a fan tonight so that i can live a little bit more comfortably in this warming climate but thats what it is when im 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 ive 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 fouryearold 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 dont have electric heat, even though i turned off my heat, and in fact theres an Electrical Appliance in the room. Its illogical, its [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names ellen, and im here every wednesday morning to strike for the planet. You guys have gotten a lot of stuff from me so im 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 its long overdue. Everyone must act in every way possible now, there is no other option. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Im here as a member of extinction rebellion. Theres 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 theyre 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 its appalling that the other members of this Committee Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is michael goldberg. Im 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 im 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 Agricultures 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 indi can india reached 120, killing multiple people and animals. Species are, like, being wiped out because of Climate Change. Over 1 million californians dont 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 its going to [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman next speaker. Amy sullivan rip, a, and id in San Francisco for the past 43 years and served as a teacher for the past 26 years. Ive 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 Worlds Biggest Oil companies. And then, also, i found that many people dont 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 thats really a big piece thats 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 plantbased 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 im 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