California Climate Action Network Progress Report

摘要

Cities and counties throughout California are responding locally to the challenge of climate change. To tackle the causes - and consequences - of global warming, California has set ambitious goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, requires the state to return to 1990 GHG emissions levels by 2020. Governor Schwarzenegger's Executive Order S-03-05 sets the even more ambitious goal of reducing GHGs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Cities and counties have already taken wide-ranging actions to reduce GHG emissions. In May 2008, the Institute for Local Government (ILG) released a new version of the California Climate Action Network (CCAN) Best Practices Framework. Version 5.0 of the framework represents months of review and input from city and county officials, state agency experts, and nonprofit and business experts who participated in its development.