TO: Napa County Climate Action Committee
FROM: David Morrison, Special Projects Director
REPORT BY: Ryan Melendez, Planner II - Sustainability
SUBJECT: Climate Education Video - How green are electric cars? - It’s Complicated
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PRESENTATION (VIDEO): Staff requests that the Climate Action Committee (CAC) begin the regular meeting on February 23, 2024, with a brief video on climate change and electric vehicle adoption. The goal of this video and future videos is to help educate CAC members on a variety of climate and environmental topics.
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BACKGROUND
Short, educational videos at the beginning of CAC meetings can help educate members on important climate topics and keep climate change and climate action topics a priority in our daily lives and CAC monthly meetings.
While electric vehicles are seen to be much more friendly to the climate and environment, there are still humanitarian and environmental impacts associated with the mining and extraction of critical materials to produce EVs, the global shipping of these materials, and with vehicle production, itself. This video, by The Guardian, explores the delicate relationships between electric vehicle production and greenhouse gas neutrality.
How green are electric cars? | It's Complicated (youtube.com) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chp9VlSs25c>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chp9VlSs25c>
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California
Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.