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<br />June 17, 2019, Work Session – Item 2 <br /> <br /> <br />Internal Climate Action Plan The Internal Climate Action Plan, or ICAP, includes the actions the City will take to reach the organization’s CRO goals. It primarily focuses on actions in the City’s fleet, facilities and fire service areas. <br />Eugene Climate Collaborative Reaching our CRO goals involves a focus on high-impact actions that have the largest ability to reduce Eugene’s ghgs. To understand the high-impact actions happening and planned within the community, the City has engaged community partners in the Eugene Climate Collaborative to learn about their current and planned actions and strategies to reduce ghgs between now and 2030. The expected community impact of the combined actions by the ECC is a reduction of around 40 percent of the 2030 target. The City of Eugene is included as a partner in the ECC and the City’s high-impact actions, such as the Transportation System Plan, are incorporated in these plans. <br />State Legislation The Clean Energy Jobs Bill (House Bill 2020) is still being considered by the Oregon Legislature in the 2019 session. If passed, a statewide cap-and-trade system would be established in Oregon. This system would have the potential community impact of reducing Eugene’s local ghgs by roughly between 32-54 percent, depending on how the final legislation is written. <br />Gap Strategies After accounting for ghg reductions from the above-mentioned components, staff identified a gap between the emission reductions from the ICAP and ECC 2030 forecast and the 2030 CRO goal. In late 2018, City Council directed the City Manager to develop a set of strategies to cover the ‘gap’, which staff presented at your January 30th work session and provide as Attachment A in this AIS The Gap Strategies include potential actions that can help the community reduce GHG emissions to meet the CRO goals. These strategies are additive from the original CAP2.0 plan in that they are not currently included in any ECC partner plans or funding strategies. And the plans range from low impact to high impact, each with corresponding impacts to community members (equity) and economic activity. Of critical importance for council consideration is the impact of HB2020 on the gaps strategy, until the bill is finalized and passed (hopefully), we are unable to model the impact on the 2030 CRO goals and the interplay they have with the provided Gap Strategy actions.