File #: 190415   
Type: New Business Status: Agenda Ready
Meeting Body: City Council
On agenda: 12/3/2019
Title: Community Greenhouse Gas Accounting, Reduction Targets, and Carbon Neutrality
Indexes: Climate Change, Climate Protection Roadmap, Council Environmental Sustainability Committee, Environmental Sustainability Task Force, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets, Sustainability
Attachments: 1. Council Report, 2. ATT 1 - Cool Block & Community Climate Solutions Questions, 3. ATT 2 - Survey of CBEI, 4. ATT 3 - GHG Reduction Targets, 5. ATT 4 - Proposed New Community GHG Reduction Targets & Levels
Related files: 18398, 18602, 190510, 203197, 201211, 200182, 201673, 203049, 203055

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Community Greenhouse Gas Accounting, Reduction Targets, and Carbon Neutrality

Recommended Action

1.                     Measure and report on the consumption-based emissions reductions from SAP-4 actions.

 

2.                     Adopt the proposed absolute GHG reduction targets beginning in 2025.

 

3.                     Direct staff to develop a resolution adopting a carbon neutrality target of 2045 and requiring development of a carbon neutrality plan by 2025, including potential use of carbon offsets.