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SF Carbon Fund

Projects Legislation & Initiatives Partners Contact

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The San Francisco Carbon Fund is an innovative carbon reduction program that invests monies from activities that produce climate damaging greenhouse gas pollution (such as air travel) into local projects that reduce greenhouse gas pollution and support local economic development. All of the projects in the Fund take place within San Francisco's boundaries and thus contribute directly to the sustainability of our shared future. The SFCarbon Fund is completely transparent, accountable, and creates real benefits for San Francisco's citizenry and environment, including:

• Reducing the production of greenhouse gases in San Francisco


• Expediting the development of innovative local climate projects that will serve as showcase projects to educate, inform and inspire City residents


• Supporting non-profits working to better the community by providing resources that reduce their operating costs, allowing them to spend more on programming


• Breaking down market barriers to non-polluting technologies by showcasing and promoting various technologies


• Increasing green collar jobs and supporting the local economy


• Reducing other types of air pollution related to electricity generation

Projects

Dog Patch Biodiesel
The first project of the San Francisco Carbon Fund was Dog Patch waste grease biodeisel facility in the Southeast sector of San Francisco. The project is estimated to reduce between 150-300 metric tons of CO2 in its first year of operation.
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Urban Orchards
The second project is the planting of fruit trees in, among other places, one of San Francisco's larger Public Housing developments. This project is expected to reduce upwards of 150 metric tons of CO2 through biomass sequestration over 15 years and includes several other ecosystem service benefits such as increased shade and canopy cover, increase storm water retention, and increased local air quality. The project is also of high social value as it both engages different community organizations to support low income families and offers direct benefits to the families themselves.
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Climate Passport Program at SFO
The San Francisco Airport is an important partner of the San Francisco Carbon Fund. SFO's new carbon kiosks allow individuals to calculate the carbon footprint of any given flight, and purchase offsets that support local carbon projects.
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Legislation & Initiatives

Mayor Newsom directed the city's Department of Environment to develop a program to fund carbon offset activities within the boundary of the City and County of San Francisco, the first of its kind in the United States. This program differs from existing carbon offset programs that seek to offset carbon pollution far away from where this pollution is actually created.

Currently in its pilot phase, the Carbon Fund is funded by a 13 percent surcharge on all city employee air travel. Additional funding comes from the carbon offset kiosks in San Francisco International Airport.

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Partners

San Francisco International Airport

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Contact

For programmatic details and to solicit project applications please contact Calla Rose Ostrander, Climate Action Coordinator, at calla.ostrander [at] sfgov.org.

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