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City of Pleasanton CEQA GHG Emissions Thresholds and Guidance At this time,the State has codified a target of reducing emissions to 40 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2030 SB 32) and has developed the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan to demonstrate how the State will achieve the 2030 target and make substantial progress toward the 2050 goal of an 80 percent reduction in 1990 GHG emission levels set by EO S-3-05.The more recently signed EO B-55-18 identifies a new goal of carbon neutrality by 2045 and supersedes the goal established by EO S-3-05.The State is also working on the 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan, which will lay out a path to achieve carbon neutrality by no later than 2045. While State and regional regulations related to energy and transportation systems, along with the State's Cap and Trade program, are designed to be set at limits to achieve most of the GHG emissions reduction needed to achieve the State's long-term targets, local governments can do their fair share toward meeting the State's targets by siting and approving projects that accommodate planned population growth and projects that are GHG-efficient.The Association of Environmental Professional (AEP) Climate Change Committee recommends that CEQA GHG analyses evaluate project emissions in light of the trajectory of State climate change legislation and assess their "substantial progress"toward achieving long-term reduction targets identified in available plans, legislation,or EOs. The City has adopted a longer-term goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 and has proposed the CAP 2.0 as a pathway to make progress toward this goal. Implementation of the CAP 2.0 would achieve an approximately 51 percent reduction in communitywide GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 203013(a 70% per capita reduction14 to 4.11 MT of COze per person by 2030) and an approximately 68 percent reduction in communitywide GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2045. Therefore,the City's longer-term target of carbon neutrality and the associated CAP 2.0 establish a trajectory that provides GHG emissions reduction equal to or greater than those required by SB 32 for 2030. Because SB 32 is considered an interim target toward meeting the State long-term goals, implementation of the Pleasanton CAP 2.0 would make substantial progress toward meeting the State's long-term goal.Avoiding interference with, and making substantial progress toward,these long-term State targets is important because these targets have been set at levels that achieve California's fair share of international emissions reduction targets that will stabilize global climate change effects and avoid the adverse environmental consequences described in Appendix A(EO B- 55-18). 13(691,161 MT of COze—341,155 MT of COze)/691,161 MT of COze=51 percent reduction 14(13.667 MT of COze per capita—4.11 MT of COze per capita)/13.667 MT of COie per capita=70 percent reduction 12