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Section 1. Introduction | 14Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 <br />1.2 CAP 1.0 Progress <br />The City's first Climate Action Plan, CAP 1.0, included <br />a GHG emission reduction target of 15% below its <br />2005 baseline by 2020. Since adopting the CAP 1.0, <br />the City has developed plans, created committees, <br />enacted policies, and taken other notable action to <br />address climate change. The City and its partners <br />expanded and improved the pedestrian and bicycle <br />network; conserved community and municipal water; <br />and increased recycling, organics diversion, and waste <br />reduction. The City also increased the proportion of <br />clean, renewable resources in the electricity mix and <br />improved green building adoption, energy efficiency, <br />and energy conservation. Several key accomplishments <br />and events have led Pleasanton to where it is today. <br />Collectively, these actions along with state and regional <br />regulations and policies have reduced Pleasanton’s <br />emissions 28% between 2005 and 2017, and the City <br />met the CAP 1.0 target ahead of schedule. Along the <br />way to meeting the CAP 1.0 target, the City learned key <br />lessons in both planning and implementing climate <br />actions. Specifically of note, the CAP 1.0 included <br />actions that went far above and beyond the available <br />resources to implement. <br />CAP 2.0 accounts for these lessons, building upon <br />and improving the work that the City, residents, and <br />businesses have done over the last decade and focusing <br />on a short list of highly implementable actions.