PRIORITY CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program Stakeholder Session: Food Waste
The State of NJ has received $3 million from the U.S. EPA to update and enhance the state’s existing climate action plans. The NJDEP is leading the development of a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) that will be a highly focused, near-term list of implementation-ready measures to help the state achieve its 2030 goal of a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The PCAP will focus on six priority areas: transportation, buildings, electric generation, food waste, highly warming gases, and natural working lands. For more information about NJDEP’s development of the PCAP, visit: https://go.rutgers.edu/NJDEP_PCAP
The New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center at Rutgers is working with the NJDEP to gather input from stakeholders regarding three of those six priority areas: food waste, highly warming gases and natural working lands. Stakeholders are invited to participate in these upcoming topical virtual stakeholder sessions.
Approximately 22% of solid waste in New Jersey consists of food waste, some of which has been found edible at the time of disposal. Not only does food waste mean wasted natural resources and money, but the disposal of it in landfills also contributes to the generation and release of greenhouse gases. For more information on food waste, visit NJDEP’s Site Remediation and Waste Management Program’s website (https://www.nj.gov/dep/dshw/food-waste/).
Programa de Subvenciones para la Reducción de la Contaminación Climática: sesión de partes interesadas sobre el desperdicio de alimentos
Habrá un servicio de traducción simultánea al español durante este seminario web. Si quiere usar el servicio, regístrese con el mismo formulario a continuación y podrá elegir el servicio de traducción al español cuando se una al seminario web.
Upcoming Events
Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program Stakeholder Session: Natural and Working Lands
November 8, 2023
10 am – 12 pm
Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program Stakeholder Session: Food Waste
November 9, 2023
1 pm – 3 pm
Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program Stakeholder Session: Halogenated Gases
November 13, 2023
10 am – 12 pm