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10/12/2009 To accelerate results, and best serve the region, we will seek to: • Advance models for use by the broader regional community on effective local actions being taken to reduce GHG emissions; • Help to identify and disseminate emerging best practices for each sector: public, private, and civil society; • Accelerate adoption of solutions by scaling up successful programs across the region; • Where advantageous, leverage selected green resources (e.g. solar inspectors, community college green collar programs), in order to maximize limited resources and speed progress; • Harmonize standards for more effective dissemination and action across the region, and; • Monitor and track progress in reducing emissions and increasing resiliency. ACTION AREA GOALS Our public- private partnership will initially focus on the three largest Bay Area cities to guide and develop, by joint example, actions that reduce the region's greenhouse gas emissions, and increase the region's resiliency to the impacts of climate change. Action area goals and aggregate targets for the three cities, working in cooperation with the partners to this Compact include: 1. Establish an example reference standard for "baseline" green building and rooftop solar practices by the end of 2010; 2. Incentivize and encourage transportation mode- shifts, such as networked work locations, bicycling and public transit, to reduce 2008 baseline gasoline consumption 3% by the end of 2013, and 8% by the end of 2018; 3. From a 2008 baseline, increase by 30% the use of renewable sources for electrical energy by the end of 2013 and by 50% by the end of 2018; 4. Through conservation and energy efficiency, reduce electrical energy usage in buildings from a 2008 baseline by an average of 10% by the end of 2013 and by 15 % by the end of 2018; 5. Increase the available blue and white collar "clean and green workforce" course /trainings by the end of 2013 and help place 20,000 trainees and graduates in the labor force by the end of 2013; 6. From a 2008 baseline, decrease community water consumption by 15 % by the end of 2013 and 20% by the end of 2018 and increase water recycling rates by 10 % by the end of 2013 and 15 % by the end of 2018; 7. Develop and adopt municipal and organizational climate adaptation plans by the end of 2013 to increase resiliency to the impacts of climate change; 8. Implement a common, ongoing region -wide public information campaign by the end of 2010, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase community resiliency; 9. Increase solid waste diversion from landfills to 75 % by the end of 2013, and achieve zero waste by the end of 2020; 10. Increase the number of zero emission and other advanced ultra -low emission light duty vehicles to 10 % of municipal fleets by the end of 2013, and to 25% by the end of 2018. 2 #14974 MUFF # 205