REPORT TO COUNCIL
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Approval of a Work Plan to Achieve the 2020 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets in the Adopted Climate Action Plan and Budget Modification No. 22
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The City of Sunnyvale Climate Action Plan (CAP) was adopted by the City Council on May 20, 2014 (Attachment 1). The CAP is a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction plan to address the causes of climate change and reduce the impacts of climate change in the future. It was adopted as a response to the State of California's legislative directive (AB 32) for cities to develop local plans to reduce GHG emissions.
The CAP builds upon the City's current and past environmental efforts. It is an assertive program that advances the City's long-term commitment and leadership role in the area of sustainability. The CAP takes existing City programs, codes and policies and combines them with new GHG emission reduction strategies and creates a timeframe for implementation and monitoring that would result in Sunnyvale exceeding the recommended GHG reduction goals outlined by the State.
The CAP includes over a 100 GHG emission reduction strategies (goals, measures and action items) and provides an Implementation Matrix that maps out the responsibilities and implementation time frames for each strategy. The Implementation Matrix identifies which strategies to accomplish in the near-term (before 2016), mid-term (before 2020) and long-term (after 2020).
As part of the Council action to adopt the CAP, staff was directed to come back with a work plan and possible funding strategies to achieve the CAP greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets in the plan. Staff was also directed to return to Council with a recommendation for securing a CAP monitoring program. The Draft CAP Work Plan 2020 (Attachment 4) lays out a schedule and plan for achieving the Near and Mid-term CAP strategies (those identified before 2020). The CAP Work Plan operationalizes the implementat...
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