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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution Supporting the Goal of Reaching 100% Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Sales in California by 2030
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Per an agenda item 14 referral request from Council Member Cox at the April 6, 2021 City Council meeting, staff recommends that the City Council review this staff report and consider adopting the associated resolution.
If approved, this resolution would add the City of San Leandro to a coalition of other individuals and organizations that are striving for political action to achieve the transition to zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs) in California. This Resolution further supports and recommends an acceleration to the year 2030 of Governor Newsom's Executive Order from January 2021, which mandates all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California be ZEVs by the year 2035.
BACKGROUND
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that the world has until 2030 to transform national economies and the ways in which we live, where we live and how we move to avoid the worst outcomes of the climate crisis. To this end, California has already established via Senate Bill 32 (2016) ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
To reach the above-referenced goals, Governor Brown signed Executive Order B-55-18 in September 2018 committing California to carbon neutrality by 2045. In addition, California has taken specific steps to reduce GHG reductions in the energy sector, including but not limited to:
* Moving the state to 100% clean energy by 2045;
* Requiring the state to double the rate of energy efficiency savings in buildings by 2030; and
* Extending the state's cap-and-trade program until the end of 2030.
While there has been significant momentum in the energy sector to achieve GHG reduction goals, the transportation sector now constitutes the largest portion of Califo...
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