Green New Deal Path 1

Dive into the Los Angeles Green New Deal! This ELA worksheet builds critical reading, vocabulary, and grammar skills for high school.

Get ready to speak about the Green New Deal Concept and comment about figuresLocal initiatives:Los Angeles releases its own ‘Green New Deal’ Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has unveiled L.A.’s Green New Deal. This four-year update to the city’s original sustainability plan, released in 2015, expands and accelerates the city’s climate action goals.The plan accelerates targets to ensure 55% of L.A.’s energy is renewable by 2025 and 100% by 2045; increase the percentage of zero-emissions vehicles in the city to 25% by 2025 and 100% by 2050; convert all city fleet vehicles to zero emissions by 2028; ensure all new buildings are emissions-free by 2030; and ensure 57% of new housing units are built within 1,500 feet of transit by 2025. [...]“The scale of our ambitions must meet the magnitude of this crisis. So we are doubling down with L.A.’s Green New Deal [...],” Garcetti wrote in the document. [...]One of the elements that makes L.A.’s sustainability plan stand out from other cities’ is the emphasis it puts on equity. Researchers increasingly have warned city leaders that low-income neighborhoods bear a disproportionate share of environmental burden, an idea reiterated in a report from Yale last year. Low-income areas often have less access to transportation, less green space and more carbon-producing infrastructure such as major road thoroughfares and industrial areas.Implementing upgrades to improve [environmental] friendliness — such as converting residences to renewable energy or purchasing an electric vehicle — is often cost prohibitive for low-income residents. Prioritizing communities that bear the brunt of climate change puts L.A. on a path to equity with its climate action goals. “Los Angeles releases its own ‘Green New Deal’ ”, Katie Pyzyk, Smart Cities Dive, 2019. Get ready to explain the " Green New Deal" concept and comment on the figures used in the text. Find the words in the text corresponding to the following definitions make sure (v.) ensure suffer the main part of (v.) bear the brunt A heavy load that you carry (n.) burden size, dimension (n.) scale put into effect / carry out something that has been planned (v.) implement too expensive cost prohibitive way, passage thouroughfare reveal unveil continue to do something in an even more determined way than before double down Spot and correct the mistakes in the following sentences L.A.'s Green New Deal is the first ever sustainability plan The plan focuses on ambitious environmental goals only. Garcetti's Green New deal remains unfair : It leaves out people who can't afford sustainable housing an clean transportation. The plan is going to exacerbate social inequalities Record your voice to explain the "Green New Deal" concept and comment on the figures used in the text. Voici la liste des verbes au présent dans le texte: classez-les dans les catégories suivantes Présent simple expands accelerates makes is puts bear have présent perfect has unveiled have warned Présent Be + V-ing (are) laying out are doubling down Pouvez-vous expliquer l'alternance des temps? Suivez les liens suivants pour vous rafraîchir la mémoire : le présent simple / le présent be + V-ing / le présent perfect Language in Progress For more grammatical practice, follow this link!