san francisco climate action plan business advisory panel

San Francisco Climate Action Plan Business Advisory Panel

Meeting #1 – February 14th, 2011

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Agenda

9:00-9:15am Introductions, Housekeeping, About BC39:15-9:30am Objectives, Outcome and Disclosure9:30-10:00am Background to the SF CAP 10:00-11:30am Panel Feedback/OPEN DISCUSSION?11:30-12:00pm Closing Remarks and Next Steps

(discuss BC3 Brownbag event)

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Introductions & Housekeeping

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Welcome from BC3!

www.bc3sfbay.org

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Objectives and Outcome

• City expectations?• Panel expectations?

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Current State of Climate Change

Russian heat wave July ‘10

25% wheat croplost, grain exports halted, severedrought, forestfires.

~11,000 heat-related excess deaths reported in Moscow alone in July

“Practically everythingis burning. The weatheris anomalously hot. What is happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all headsof social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.”

Russian PresidentMedvedev (July, 2010)

Moscow reaches >100oFin July 2010, the hottest summer in Russia ever.

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Australian Floods, NYC Snow Storm, Amazon Drought

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• So where do we stand?

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SF CAP – Brief Policy History• 2002 Board of Supervisors Resolution sets an emissions

reduction target, and mandates SF Environment and SFPUC staff to prepare a Climate Action Plan.

• 2003 Mayor Brown joins 150 other U.S. mayors in urging the Federal Government to take action on Climate Change

• 2004 Climate Action Plan released. Mayor Gavin Newsom endorses goals.

• 2005 Climate Coordinator hired to coordinate plan implementation.

• 2008 Department Climate Action Plan Mandate. • 2010 Mayor Gavin Newsom announces the City has met Kyoto

targets

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CCSF on

track to

meet 20%

reduction by

2012

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SF Community GHG Inventory

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SF Emissions, CAP Reduction Goals and Kyoto

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Main contributors towards reductions• Mild climate, dense transit-friendly urban

form, and a very small industrial sector. • Urban forest carbon sink• Two biggest contributing factors to reductions,

economic recession and state RPS• Not sure…currently difficult or not possible to

track reductions to most policies• BUT we have 9% to go in the next 2 yrs!

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What really matters?

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Summary

• How are we making our goals internally?– Clean power (Hetch Hetchy)– Operational efficiency– Clean vehicles/biodiesel/alternative transportation

• How will we make our goals in the community?

– New transportation infrastructure, MTA actions– Renewable Energy – 100% by 2030 Mayoral Target– How feasible? How will this affect business community?

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New approach to Climate Planning• Past (2004) “Visioning”

– Mayors adopted international targets at a local level

– Climate plans developed, actions backed out from targets

– No assessment of GHG reduction potential, cost and political feasibility

– CAP = political visioning document• Future (2011) “Planning”

– Looking at actions and potential for reduction– CAP = planning document– Execution, how is it going to work?

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Your thoughts?

• Initial impression?• Positive or negative?• How can the city make it

work?• What role do businesses

play? • How will businesses help to

reach goals?

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Big Picture

• Synergistic opportunities to build new low carbon business locally

• Public private partnerships, A history of nation building!

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Thank you!

BROWNBAG – VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS