Seattle's elected officials have set a target for transforming the city's "core energy" – including all of the energy serving its buildings and transportation, to be fully carbon-neutral by the year 2050. What does the city need to do with its building stock beginning today to ensure that it can hit that target in a single generation? The question was studied in part in the 2010 Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) study Getting to Zero – A Pathway to a Carbon-Neutral Seattle, which made general recommendations but stopped short of pinning down a step-by-step solution. This paper proposes a set of potential strategies, centered on the concept of "zero-carbon-ready" communities. This set of strategies forms one of several possible pathways to carbon-neutrality that will be debated over the months and years to come. While a number of the components of this strategy are already incorporated into the Seattle Energy Code and other legislation, further actions are still required. These actions must be structured to maintain Seattle's vibrant economy and culture while dramatically improving the energy efficiency of Seattle's buildings.
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机译：Seattle's elected officials have set a target for transforming the city's "core energy" – including all of the energy serving its buildings and transportation, to be fully carbon-neutral by the year 2050. What does the city need to do with its building stock beginning今天为了确保它可以在一代人中击中该目标？这些问题是部分研究的2010年斯德哥尔摩环境研究所（SEI）研究进入零 - 一种碳中性西雅图的途径，这使得一般建议，但停止循环一步一步的解决方案。本文提出了一系列潜在的策略，以“零碳准备”社区的概念为中心。这套策略形成了几个可能的碳中立途径之一，这些途径将在未来几个月和年份辩论。虽然该策略的许多组成部分已被纳入西雅图能源代码和其他立法，但仍然需要进一步的行动。这些行动必须构建，以维持西雅图的充满活力和文化，同时大大提高了西雅图建筑的能源效率。
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