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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 34-5 Comprehensive Sustainability Plan.">
  <section prefix="§" num="34-5" heading="Comprehensive Sustainability Plan.">
    <text>The Commission’s Comprehensive Sustainability Plan shall:</text>
    <para num="(1)">discuss all elements of sustainability, including air quality, water quality, resource conservation and recycling, energy, public health, environmental justice, reduction of greenhouse emissions, and increasing use of alternative means of transportation;</para>
    <para num="(2)">establish 3-, 5-, and 10-year sustainability targets, including making City government operations achieve, by January 1, 2045, net-zero emissions, as defined in City Code &lt;cite data-path="|1|§34-1|(f)"&gt;Article 1, § 34-1(f)&lt;/cite&gt;, while ensuring that capital investments associated with achieving net-zero emissions are prioritized to the extent possible in the communities most impacted by climate change and pollution, as determined by the Director</para>
    <para num="(3)">create public and private sustainability initiatives, to include but not limited to standards for city purchasing, incentives for citizens and businesses to recycle and purchase recycled goods, incentives for energy conservation, and water quality improvements;</para>
    <para num="(4)">describe the resources and responsible agencies and others needed to implement the Plan;</para>
    <para num="(5)">include a public information component;</para>
    <para num="(6)">establish key sustainability indicators to track progress of Plan implementation;</para>
    <para num="(7)">establish key environmental justice indicators to track community impacts of plan; and</para>
    <para num="(8)">set criteria and recommend mandatory measures for annual reporting to the City Council on:<para num="(i)">Energy Consumption Reports, as required in City Code &lt;cite data-path="|5|§45-2"&gt;Article 5, § 45-2&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">Comprehensive Recycling and Composting Plan, as prescribed in City Code &lt;cite data-path="|23|§16-2"&gt;Article 23, § 16-2&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
      <para num="(iii)">community environmental health metrics, including the parity or disparity of benefits and burdens across different population groups, and including the decrease in metric tons of criteria pollutants, which include:<para num="(A)">carbon monoxide;</para>
        <para num="(B)">ground-level ozone;</para>
        <para num="(C)">lead;</para>
        <para num="(D)">nitrogen dioxide;</para>
        <para num="(E)">particulate matter; and</para>
        <para num="(F)">sulfur dioxide; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(iv)">greenhouse gas emissions reduction reports.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-488</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-131</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
