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Section 2. Climate Vulnerability and GHG Emissions | 21Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 <br />2.1 Pleasanton's Climate <br />Vulnerability <br />1 To view the full Climate Vulnerability Assessment, visit the City of Pleasanton CAP 2.0 <br />webpage (accessed August 16, 2021). <br />Pleasanton, like many communities, faces vulnerabilities to <br />climate change. To better understand the extent to which <br />climate change will affect the community, the City completed <br />a Pleasanton-specific climate vulnerability assessment.1 <br />This assessment evaluated anticipated climate threats to the <br />community—including impacts to social, environmental, and <br />infrastructure systems—and the City’s level of readiness to <br />respond to them. The assessment revealed that the community <br />is already experiencing and will continue to experience impacts <br />from climate change. These impacts will build upon one another, <br />with one impact intensifying another, and threaten the safety, <br />health, and wellbeing of residents, particularly vulnerable <br />populations such as outdoor workers, the very young, and the <br />elderly. Some of the specific threats that Pleasanton faces are <br />shown in Table 5 on the following page, with relative risk levels <br />indicated for different public and natural systems. The relative <br />risk scores (1 being "lowest risk level" and 5 being "highest <br />risk level") can help the City better determine how to prioritize <br />protecting different sectors from climate impacts. <br />Section 2. Climate Vulnerability and GHG Emissions