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Climate Action Plan Summary the City's longer-term carbon neutrality goal while also exceeding the State's 2030 target.The CAP 2.0 acknowledges that additional actions beyond those identified in the plan will be necessary to achieve the long-term aspirational goal of carbon neutrality and therefore provides a mechanism for tracking performance over time, reporting annual progress to the City Council, conducting inventory updates every three years,and adopting a new climate action plan every ten years(with the ability to adjust as needed based on progress),with the first update occurring in 2030, in order to incorporate new strategies and technologies that will further the City toward meeting its long-term aspirational goal of carbon neutrality. As part of the CAP 2.0 process,the City of Pleasanton has developed a set of strategies reducing communitywide GHG emissions in all sectors to achieve the City's climate action targets. Each strategy is supported by a set of actions that provide a measurable GHG emissions reduction that is supported by substantial evidence.The City has also developed a strategy and supportive actions for offsetting GHG emissions through carbon sequestration, established under a new sector called "Natural Systems."Strategies and actions are organized according to the following hierarchy: 1. Sectors:Sectors define the GHG emissions category in which the GHG emissions reduction will take place and include Buildings& Energy,Transportation & Land Use, Materials& Consumption,Water Resources, Natural Systems,and Community Resilience&Wellbeing.10 2. Strategies: Strategies identify specific goals(i.e.,activity data targets by 2030 and 2045)to address GHG emissions in each sector.A single strategy generally addresses a subsector;for example,three strategies may be established under the Transportation sector to address active transportation,shared/public transportation, and single-passenger vehicles. 3. Actions:Actions identify the programs, policies,funding pathways, and other specific commitments that the City will implement. Each strategy contains a suite of actions, which together have been designed to accomplish the measure goal. Table 3 summarizes the GHG emissions reduction that are anticipated to be achieved by 2030 by the identified strategies in the CAP 2.0, in addition to State laws and programs.As shown therein, implementation of State laws and programs as well as the CAP 2.0 primary actions would reduce 2030 absolute communitywide emissions by approximately 51 percent below 1990 levels,to approximately 341,155 MT of CO2e in 2030. If full implementation of both the primary and secondary CAP 2.0 actions are achieved, communitywide emissions would be reduced by approximately 1,335 additional MT of CO2e in 2030 for an estimate communitywide emissions total of 339,821 MT CO2e.11 equivalent(CO2e),and is the amount of a GHG emitted multiplied by its GWP.Carbon dioxide has a 100-year GWP of one.By contrast, methane has a GWP of 25,meaning its global warming effect is 25 times greater than CO2 on a molecule per molecule basis (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007). 10 Note that the City's municipal strategies as established in the CAP 2.0 are not discussed in this document.While the municipal strategies are important for reducing the GHG emissions of City operations and establishing the City's operations as demonstrations of climate action leadership,they represent a minor contribution to community-level GHG emissions reduction and are a subset of communitywide GHG emissions.For this reason,GHG emissions reduction expected from municipal strategies were conservatively excluded from the analysis in this document and were not quantified as part of the CAP 2.0 preparation process. 11 This estimated communitywide CAP-adjusted emissions total including both primary and secondary CAP actions is less than 1 percent different that the CAP-adjusted emissions total for primary actions only,and is still shown as 51 percent below 1990 levels due to rounding to the nearest percent. 7