Overview of Recent Developments Gregory B. Greenwood Science Advisor Resources Agency

Not-so-recent history  1988 AB 4420 (Sher) – potential impacts of climate change  1991 Global Climate Change: Potential Impacts and Policy Recommendations  1997 Global Climate Change Report: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategies for California

SB 1771 & 527 –GHG Emissions  Established California Climate Action Registry  Requires update of GHG inventory on five-year cycle  Imminent release of update …  CEC establishes Climate Change Program global_climate_change/

AB 2076 Reduce Petroleum Dependence  Transportation Energy Efficiency Measures  Advanced vehicle technologies, including alternative fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles and high efficiency vehicles.  Non-Petroleum and Alternative Fuels, which include gasoline and diesel substitutes.  Measures to Affect Consumer Fuel Demand 

CEC Public Interest Energy Research -Global Climate Change Research Plan  economic issues  improvement in methodology of in- state GHG emissions estimation  ecological impacts  water resources impacts  forestry and agricultural impacts  regional climatic modeling  the development of supply side of options to reduce GHG emissions

DWR State Water Plan Update  6 June 2001 Los Angeles  Cayan, Roos and Gleick presentation to Public Advisory Committee  Subsequent Machado hearings

Sufficient? Coherent?

California Climate Initiative A Proposal for the 2002 State of the State Address Joint Agency Climate Team (Resources, CalEPA, BT&H, CDFA, TT&C, OPR) December 20, 2001 Draft - Please Do Not Distribute California Climate Initiative Making Progress in 2002 Joint Agency Climate Team (Resources, CalEPA, BTH, CDFA, TTC, OPR)

Who?  Resources Agency CEC DWR CDF DFG  Cal EPA CARB SWRCB CIWMB  Business, Transportaton and Housing CalTrans  CA Food and Agriculture  Office of Planning and Research  Technology, Trade and Commerce

What?  Making the compelling case: packaging info  We are not alone: commitments of other governments and corporations  We have already begun: the climate change implications of existing programs  But we have a lot more to do: elements of a climate change initiative…

Some California Programs Address Some Parts of Climate Change…EndsMeans Current Programs

But We Need A Richer Strategy To Fully Address Climate Change…EndsMeans Useful Actions Proposed Initiatives

vs Recommendations “1. Promoting energy-efficient technologies and strategies in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors 2. Accounting for environmental externalities in assessing the costs of energy production, resource planning, and procurement 3. Promoting development and integration of renewable generating technologies into the electricity system 4. Promoting high-efficiency gas generation technologies 5. Improving forestry, solid waste and recycling, and livestock management

…Dealing with impacts 6. Expanding markets for low-emission alternative fuels and vehicles 7. Promoting research and development on biomass- based alcohol fuels 8. Reducing vehicle miles traveled in personal vehicles, through promoting improved and expanded transportation alternatives, VMT fees, and other highway use fees; and 9. Expanding land use planning to incorporate long-term transportation needs and promote strategies for better management of transportation demand”

Next Steps  Half full (which is still more full than the federal): “California has recognized climate change as an issue and has begun to address it.”  Half empty: “California needs to broaden and deepen its response to climate change in terms of both adaptation and mitigation.”

Half full: claiming victory  Turn this matrix into a more complete and compelling text  Include relevant activities of other agencies and departments; e.g. State and Consumer Services

Half empty: unpacking the initiative  Taking “good” ideas and turning them into programs and policies…  Considerable analysis…  Costs and benefits…  Lurking issues: uncertainty, tax policy, sustainability, land use, relations with the feds, power contracts…  What do we need so that in 2012 we don’t repeat ourselves?