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8.D. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er April 22, 2013 SUBJECT Resolution of the City Council of the City of Redwood City Approving and Adopting the City of Redwood City Climate Action Plan RECOMMENDATION Adopt by resolution the City of Redwood City Climate Action Plan. BACKGROUND In 2006, the State of California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), which requires the State to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and encourages local governments to reduce emissions in their jurisdictions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. At the regional level, starting in 2007, the County of San Mateo RecycleWorks and City and County Association of Governments (C/CAG), with funding from Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), partnered to support local governments in developing GHG inventories, establishing reductions targets, and preparing climate action plans. The City of Redwood City has responded in a number of ways to fulfill its environmental stewardship responsibilities. It has conducted 2005 and 2010 GHG emissions inventories for government operations and a baseline 2005 communitywide inventory with plans to complete a 2010 communitywide inventory later this year. In 2008, Council adopted by resolution the San Mateo County Energy Strategy, which supports and reinforces the City's environmental initiatives, energy efficiency and water conservation efforts, and climate action planning. In 2010, Council acknowledged the Redwood City Community Climate Action Plan, an earlier version of the Climate Action Plan which was meant to serve more generally as a community call to action. In the same year, Council adopted the Redwood City General Plan, which calls for the preparation of GHG inventories at least every five years, the adoption of emissions reduction targets, and the adoption of a Climate Action Plan. ANALYSIS To fulfill General Plan Programs PS-13, PS-14, and PS-15, in 2012, the City of Redwood City partnered with C/CAG, with partial grant funding from BAAQMD and PG&E, to prepare the attached emissions forecast, emissions reduction target, and Climate Action Plan. The earlier Community Climate Action Plan, acknowledged in 2010, focused on public outreach to promote awareness of climate action and provided tools and programs for residents and local businesses to coordinate with the City to reduce GHG emissions. With guidance from the Environmental Initiatives