GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN

The city has developed a Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reduction Plan in response to recent state legislation and to inform the General Plan update process that is currently underway. The goals of this report are to:

• provide a list of specific actions that will aggressively reduce GHG emissions, giving the highest priority to actions that provide the greatest reduction in GHG emissions and benefits to the community at least cost;

• reduce emissions attributable to the City of Pasadena to levels at or below 1990 GHG emissions by year 2020 consistent with the target reductions of AB 32 and to begin to further reduce GHG emissions toward the ultimate goal of 80 percent below 1990 GHG emissions by year 2050 consistent with the Kyoto Protocol and Executive Order S-3-05;

• provide estimated GHG reductions associated with the City’s sustainability efforts;

• integrate the City’s sustainability efforts into the specific actions of this plan; and

• establish thresholds of significance for GHG emissions within the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) thereby creating a legally defensible foundation to use with the environmental analysis of future development projects subject to City review.

Community Meetings

The Municipal Services Committee reviewed the report on November 17, 2009 and directed staff to present the report to two advisory commissions for public review and comment. The two commissions, and the date of the public meetings before these commissions, are as follows (click on links below to view meeting location and agenda):

• Planning Commission: December 9, 2009, 6:15 pm

• Environmental Advisory Commission: December 15, 2009, 6:00 pm

If you are unable to attend one of the two meetings listed above, you can also provide comments in writing using the link below. After the report is revised to address comments from the two commissions, it will be scheduled for review and adoption by the Municipal Services Committee and the full City Council.

Documents for Review

• Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Reduction Plan

• Appendix A: The Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change Impacts

• Appendix B:   Assumptions & General Formulas

• Appendix C:  1990 URBEMIS Output & GHG Calculations

• Appendix D:  2007 URBEMIS Output & GHG Calculations

• Appendix E:  2020 URBEMIS Output & GHG Calculations

• Appendix F:  Current GHG Programs

• Appendix G:  Additional Mitigation

      

Submit & View Public Comments:

We want to hear from you! Please send us any comments you have regarding the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reduction Plan. You may also use this forum to comment on any documents posted on this site.

Contact information:

Kevin Johnson, Acting Senior Planner

   (626) 744-7806

kevinjohnson@cityofpasadena.net