Sacramento Greenhouse Gas Inventories

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Municipal Operations

Sacramento joined the California Climate Action Registry as one of twelve charter members in 2002 and now has a three-year history of inventorying emissions and a great understanding of what needs to be done in order to meet their target. The City has developed three reduction targets; one each for 2012, 2020 and 2030 and also has developed a climate action plan (CAP) in order to work towards achieving the targets. Eleven of the 15 programs under the CAP are being partially implemented.

Community Wide

Since 2005, the City has met with other regional jurisdictions and agencies (County, Roseville, AQMD, SMUD, PG&E, ICLEI, LGC, CARB) in an effort to work towards developing a regional climate action plan for the six-county SACOG planning region. This effort has resulted in a six-county elected official and city manager discussion on climate change held at CSUS on January 31, 2008. This conference was attended by nearly 100 elected officials and city executives. The City, County, AQMD and SMUD are now working with ICLEI and Jones and Stokes to see if a county-wide inventory can be developed. The draft goal for this project is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the SACOG region by 80% by 2050 relative to 1990.

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