San Francisco Climate Action Plan Business Advisory Panel Meeting #1 – February 14 th, 2011.
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Transcript of San Francisco Climate Action Plan Business Advisory Panel Meeting #1 – February 14 th, 2011.
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