(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago recently released a new Climate Action Plan, laying out its long-term strategy for how to address climate challenges.
Valeria Rincon is the Midwest Climate and Clean Energy Schneider Fellow at the National Resources Defense Council, and she is based in Chicago.
She told WBBM Chicago's new climate plan, "makes a lot of good promises."
"We'll see with implementation where we head," Rincon said on a recent Zoom call.
"One of the things that stands out to me is a commitment from the city of electrifying its own delivery fleet, so achieving 100 percent electrification of its fleet by 2035."
Rincon also said Chicago's 2022 Climate Action Plan allocates $188 million to carbon emissions reduction strategies including all-electric buildings, solar energy, and more.
"I focus a lot on the clean energy aspects of it, and also on the plan's commitment to ensuring some of the benefits of the clean-energy transition to communities in an equitable way."
She knows that "climate anxiety" - worrying about saving this planet - is a real thing, but you have to look at the progress and potential progress.
"Just imagining even the short-term impacts of implementing some of these strategies and the ways they can really improve our quality of life," Rincon said.
"I think those are things that keep me going and make me feel a little less intimidated by obviously the big problem we have at hand."
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