In conjunction with a state's GHG reduction targets, the development of a comprehensive Climate Action Plan is essential to any state or municipalities efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Once GHG emissions targets are set, a Climate Action Plan can provide the roadmap or guide to achieving those targets.
A comprehensive climate action plan may have several recommendations based on the composition of a state's emissions. For example, California's Climate Action Team report has 9 key recommendations including a multi sector, market-based system that includes trading, mandatory reporting of GHG emissions reporting, and an aggressive alternative fuels program. (You can download the Executive Summary below.)
Even more critical is a mechanism to implement and enforce the recommendations made in the report. California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 codifies California's Greenhouse Gas Emissions targets and implements the state's Climate Action Team report.
The Climate Policy Program is no longer active at New America. This resource can now be found at seventhgenerationadvisors.org.
