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City of Pleasanton Climate Action Plan, CAP Format, Approach, and Content Attachment 2 City of San Carlos Date Adopted: October, 2009 Prepared by: City of San Carlos, PMC Summary: The San Carlos CAP was created by the City of San Carlos and PMC, and with funding and technical support from the Association of Bay Area Governments, BAAQMD, ICLEI, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the City /County Association of Governments of San Mateo. The San Carlos CAP identifies sources of GHG emissions caused from actions within the City of San Carlos municipal boundary and estimates how these emissions may change over time. The CAP provides energy use, transportation, land use, and solid waste strategies to bring San Carlos' GHG emissions levels to 15% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 35% below 2005 levels by 2030. To reach this goal, the Plan relies heavily on State initiatives (including the Renewable Portfolio Standard, Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley) and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard), which together contribute 60% of projected community -wide emission reductions by 2020. The Plan also presents 21 emission reduction measures and provides evidence that these measures are feasible. Various outcomes of these reduction efforts are assessed, along with how these reduction efforts can be implemented and advertised. The Plan also addresses ways in which the City can prepare for and adapt to the consequences of climate change. This CAP is set up to be updated every five years and respond to changes in science, effectiveness of emission reduction measures and federal, state, regional or local policies. The CAP was included in the scope of the General Plan EIR, so it serves as the programmatic tiering document for the purposes of CEQA within the City of San Carlos for climate change, by which applicable developments within the City will be reviewed. If a proposed development is consistent with the emission reduction and adaptation measures included in the Climate Action Plan and the programs that are developed as a result of the CAP, the project would be considered to have a less than significant impact on climate change and emissions consistent with the direction of the California Attorney General and Public Resources Code 21083.3. City of San Francisco Date Adopted: September, 2004 Prepared by: SF Environment, SFPUC, ICLEI Summary: San Francisco has joined over 500 cities around the world to participate in the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) campaign, sponsored by ICLEI. As part of the campaign, member cities have committed to: inventory their emissions of greenhouse gases; set reduction targets; develop comprehensive strategies to meet these targets; implement these emissions reduction actions; and measure the results. The criteria set by the CCP campaign were used to define the scope and presentation of the CAP. The CAP provides background information on the causes of climate change and projections of its impacts on California and San Francisco from recent scientific reports; presents estimates of San Francisco's A2 -5