8 takeaways for Mass. from the National Climate Assessment

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The fifth National Climate Assessment, produced every four years, details on the effects of climate change in the Northeast. Climate change will bring more heat waves, flooding and coastal erosion to the region.

A car drives through flood water by the Chart House on Boston's Long Wharf during a November king tide.

Five of the New England states have laws requiring emissions reductions of at least 80% by 2050 . New Hampshire's climate plan just"recommends" that level of reduction. The groundbreakingmandates that all new vehicles sales be zero emissions by 2035, and introduced a pilot program allowing some municipalities to ban fossil fuel connections in new construction.

Coastal flooding is increasing risks to drinking water supplies and septic tanks and also causing shoreline erosion, road damage and drowned wetlands , according to the report.

 

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