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Goals and Targets Goals and Targets The Goal To put California on the path to a low -carbon future, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved the Climate Change Scoping Plan in 2008. The plan directed the State to reach 1990 emissions levels by 2020. Municipal governments were asked to reduce their emissions by at least 15 percent by 2020 compared with current levels (2008 levels or earlier). This prompted many cities to adopt community -wide emissions reduction targets of at least 15 percent below 2005 levels. In 2015, Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-30-15 to set the 2030 emissions target (40 percent less than 1990 levels by 2030). It was codified by California Senate Bill 32 (SB 32). CARB followed up with an updated California's 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan.3 In response, Redwood City is joining other municipalities in adopting community -wide emissions reduction targets of 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. 7 In September 2018, Governor Brown issued California Executive Order B-55-18, setting the goal of achieving carbon neutrality as soon as possible (by 2045 at the latest), and maintaining 2045 net negative net emissions from that point forward. The following year, the San Mateo County Reach Carbon Board of Supervisors committed to achieving carbon neutrality well before 2045.37 With this limp CAP, Redwood City commits to working with the County of San Mateo and other local �&_) governments in San Mateo County to reach the goal of carbon neutrality well before 2045. Carbon Neutrality The basic definition of carbon neutrality is taking action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to zero — and then "offsetting" an equivalent amount of any remaining emissions. This carbon neutrality target is based on the Paris Agreement which calls for preventing average global temperature from rising more than 2°C (3.6°F) above pre- industrial levels and pursuing efforts to keep warming below 1.5°C (2.7°F). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), holding temperature rise below 1.5°C will mean global emissions of CO2 will need to decline 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. U.S. cities that have adopted aggressive targets of reducing emissions by 80 to 100 percent by 2050 or sooner include Boulder, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Governor Brown's 2018 executive order called on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop an implementation framework and accounting to track progress over time.38In particular, this framework needs to address how to account for the embodied emissions in the food, goods, and services we purchase that aren't covered by generation -based GHG inventories. (See Chapter 5: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventories for more information.) While Redwood City will await State guidance on how to account for these emissions reductions, we will work to reduce consumption -based emissions in the meantime. (See Chapter 6: Strategies & Actions, Food and Consumption section for specific strategies.) City of Redwood City Climate Action Plan 33