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: December 2024 RCAAP Update: Ascent Presentation on a Draft Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures and Targets Technical Memorandum
RECOMMENDATION
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PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION: REGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION MEASURES AND GHG TARGETS TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM
Staff requests the CAC receive a presentation from Ascent Environmental on the GHG Reduction Measures and Quantification Technical Memo.
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BACKGROUND
At the July 26th, 2024 CAC meeting Ascent Environmental presented the Draft Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Framework, Guidelines, and Preliminary GHG Reduction Measures Memo and Matrix. CAC members discussed these measures and provided direction to RCAAP project staff to move forward with cost/funding analyses of the top 10 most impactful measures. The GHG Reduction Measures Memo and accompanying Matrix presented a preliminary list of GHG emission reduction strategies, measures, and actions.
The framework is comprised of strategies, measures, and actions. Strategies serve as high-level methods for reducing GHG emissions in each sector of the GHG Inventory. Within each strategy are measures that include policies, measurable objectives, or other more specific pathways for achieving emissions reductions. In addition, each measure includes actions defining specific activities, implementation programs, projects, or steps that each jurisdiction would take to implement the measures to achieve GHG emissions reduction targets defined in the RCAAP.
The GHG Reduction Memo describes two guideline objectives for developing the GHG reduction measures and implementing actions: (1) ensuring that the measures and actions are consistent with a CEQA-qualified GHG reduction plan; and (2) outlining a more specific set of criteria that evaluates the mea...
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