Download the presentation here - Business Council on Climate

San Francisco Climate Action
Plan
Business Advisory Panel
Meeting #1 – February 14th, 2011
Agenda
9:00-9:15am
Introductions, Housekeeping, About
BC3
9:15-9:30am
Objectives, Outcome and Disclosure
9:30-10:00am
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
3
Welcome from BC3!
www.bc3sfbay.org
4
Objectives and Outcome
• City expectations?
• Panel expectations?
5
Current State of Climate Change
6
Russian heat wave July
‘10
25% wheat crop
lost, grain exports
halted, severe
drought, forest
fires.
~11,000 heat-related excess deaths
reported in Moscow alone in July
Russian President
Medvedev (July, 2010)
“Practically everything
is burning. The weather
is 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.”
Moscow reaches >100oF
in July 2010, the hottest summ
in Russia ever.
Australian Floods, NYC Snow Storm,
Amazon Drought
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• So where do we stand?
10
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%
reduc
tion
by
2012
12
SF Community GHG Inventory
13
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
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