7 Takeaways From New Report About How Mass. Can Meet Its Climate Goals

“The cost of not acting — the increasing cost of climate disaster response, the lost work time, human morbidity and mortality — all of those things are much, much, much more expensive than the investment needed to achieve our mandated emissions reductions and the resilience investments that are going to keep us safe,” says Melissa Hoffer ’98, Massachusetts’ first climate chief, who published a new report this week with 39 recommendations for how the state can address the climate crisis.