Tiburon officials push for more action to meet climate goals

Tiburon has been awarded a $600,000 grant to install a battery energy-storage system at its police station and is advancing work on its sea-level rise and adaptation plan. At the same time, the Town Council urged its climate action and sustainability coordinator to identify additional ways to help the town meet its climate goals — now less than four years away.

After the Town Council received updates from coordinator Grace Ledwith at its Feb. 18 meeting, Mayor Jon Welner asked Ledwith to do the “thought exercise” of identifying additional ways to help the town meet environmental goals. Tiburon adopted a climate-action plan in 2022 with an ambitious target of reducing emissions to at least 50% below 1990 levels by 2030 — stronger than California’s 40% reduction goal by the same year. Meeting Tiburon’s goal will require slashing 21,000 metric tons of carbon emissions.

“We’re at a funny point in our (climate-action plan), right, where we’re about halfway through, a little over, and all of the big-ticket, easy items have been done,” Ledwith said at the meeting. “So now it’s about these nominal increases of, ‘OK, what else can we do? What else can we stack?’”

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