In summary
The road to meeting California’s climate targets won’t be easy, so it is imperative that we implement strong policy across every sector of the economy.
By F. Noel Perry
Hoyu Chong, Special to CalMatters
Hoyu Chong is the practice lead for sustainable growth and development at Beacon Economics, hoyu@beaconecon.com.
Newly appointed leaders at the California Air Resources Board began this year with a monumental task ahead of them. California’s progress on climate change is slipping – and it will take bold leadership and a visionary approach to put the state back on track.
The results from Next 10’s 12th annual California Green Innovation Index, prepared by Beacon Economics, underscore the challenge. For the first time in six years, California’s greenhouse gas emissions ticked upward in 2018, the latest year for which data is available, just as they need to be falling dramatically. To meet California’s legally-binding emission reduction targets, we will
Study: California Has Work to Do to Meet Its Emissions Goals
A new report by Next 10, a California-based organization charged with researching the state s greenhouse gas emissions, anticipates the Golden State is not on course to meet state-mandated goals. California Capitol Building. A new report by Next 10, a California-based organization charged with researching the state s greenhouse gas emissions, anticipates the Golden State is not on course to meet state-mandated goals. Shutterstock/Wallentine
The nation’s most populous state appears to be backsliding on its goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A new report by the nonprofit and nonpartisan group Next 10 found that California emissions increased slightly in 2018, compared to 2017, the first increase since 2012, making it all the more difficult for the state to reach its 2030 emissions reduction goals.
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As California Emissions Climb From Power Generation, California’s Climate Targets Could Slip Out of Reach
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Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions the latest year for which data are available rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. Data from the report illustrate that California now must reduce emissions by an average of 4.9 percent each year from 2020 to 2030 to cut emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, as mandated by SB 32. The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1 percent. While 2020 may see a similar emissions drop, the state has never cut emissions more than 2.6 percent in a year while not experiencing an economic downturn since California passed AB 32 in 2006. Now the state must double that each year. In this way, the 2020