New Report Shows How to Increase Climate-Friendly Neighborhoods
UCLA School of Law and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law today released a new report showing policymakers how to boost climate-friendly real estate development in California. This type of development is typified by walkable communities near transit, jobs, and services and is key to reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions.The paper’s recommendations are the result of a March workshop at UCLA School of Law, where California Attorney General Jerry Brown and the state’s leading real estate developers and architects discussed ways to overcome the barriers to sustainable development in California.
“Real estate development has generated incredible wealth in California, but it has also — in far too many cases — contributed to grinding traffic jams, pollution and a disturbing separation between where we work and where we live,” commented Attorney General Brown. “This set of recommendations, if followed, would make neighborhoods and cities more livable and slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.”
