TO: Napa County Climate Action Committee
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Napa County Planning, Building, & Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Ryan Melendez, Planner II - Sustainability
SUBJECT: June 2024: Staff update on the status of the Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (RCAAP) Development
RECOMMENDATION
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PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION: Staff will deliver a presentation on two intermediary documents of the RCAAP and provide updates on community engagement to the Climate Action Committee.
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BACKGROUND
RCAAP Documents: The Ascent Environmental team has completed drafts of a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Forecast Memo (Memo) and a Climate Vulnerability Assessment (VA). These documents are now published on the RCAAP Project Website, where the public can review and provide comments. These documents are also attached to this staff report.
The GHG Emissions Forecast Memo provides an update to the Final Napa County Regional Greenhouse Gas Forecast (2019-2030) that was delivered to Napa County on November 29, 2022. The RCAAP GHG Emissions Forecast Memo estimates a breakdown of forecasted emissions in each of the six jurisdictions in the region, under both "business-as-usual" (BAU) and legislative-adjusted BAU scenarios for the years 2030, 2035, and 2045. Under the BAU scenario, forecasts provide an estimate of future GHG levels based on a continuation of current trends in activity and anticipated growth. Under the legislative-adjusted BAU scenario, the forecasts are adjusted to account for Federal, State, and regional legislative actions to reduce emissions in the future. The legislative-adjusted BAU scenario does not account for proposed new local GHG reduction measures, and thus this scenario illustrates the scale of reductions that would still be needed to achieve the region's GHG reduction goals. Staff and the consultant team are working on drafting set of proposed GHG emissions reduction measures that will further reduce GHG emissions (in add...
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