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Section 4. Implementation | 69Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 While the City emphasized actions within their sphere of control in developing CAP 2.0, some of the most impactful and costly actions rely on partnerships for implementation. These include the Existing Building Electrification Plan (P2) and ZEV Infrastructure Plan (P5). Partnerships will also be crucial to advancing secondary actions because they offer the additional capacity, mechanisms for identifying funding sources, and opportunities for collaborative funding and implementation the City will need to be able to implement them. Partnerships will also be crucial to advancing secondary actions because they offer the additional capacity, mechanisms for identifying funding sources, and opportunities for collaborative funding and implementation the City will need to be able to implement them. 4.5 Equity & Other Considerations To truly consider equity during CAP 2.0 implementation, the City will need to go beyond merely distributing resources equally. Equitable participation in implementation and access to the benefits of climate action require meeting community needs in the context of existing vulnerabilities and inequalities, and integrating equity in policy, outreach, and infrastructure development. The most effective climate action initiatives protect and conserve the environment, build resilience, avoid unintended consequences, improve public health, and support livable communities with healthy local economies. While equity must be considered in implementation of all actions, certain actions will require particular attention to ensure implementation is equitable (see Table 10). The City will focus on: • Fair distribution of benefits over time: The City will consider not only where actions are implemented, but when, to ensure that vulnerable and historically marginalized communities are not the last to receive the benefits of climate action. • Financial burden: The City will provide, either directly or through partners, financial rebates, incentives, and other measures to ensure that the household-level costs of CAP 2.0 implementation do not increase existing income burdens. This is especially relevant for actions that affect renters (e.g., landlord building electrification or energy efficiency) and actions with broadly distributed costs (e.g., EBCE Renewable 100). • Community engagement: City staff will work to involve diverse community voices from the start of any new initiative and will track progress towards advancing equity (see Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting). They will also rely on and contribute to partnerships with the community groups and service providers who know Pleasanton’s diverse communities best, and will consider when additional effort is needed to truly engage a community (e.g., significant changes like EV adoption and household-based energy and water efficiency). Table 9. CAP 2.0 focus areas for equitable implementation and applicable actions Fair distribution of benefits over timeFinancial burdenCommunity engagementP2. Existing Building Electrification Plan • • • P5. Create and implement a Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Infrastructure Plan • • • P10. Increase transit ridership • S2. Community energy efficiency upgrades • • P15. Water efficiency and retrofits • • S9. Wildfire preparation, prevention, and education ••