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San Ramon adopts updated Climate Action Plan, will track progress toward 2030 target
Summary
The City Council adopted an updated Climate Action Plan (CAP) and related CEQA greenhouse‑gas thresholds, accepting the consultant analysis that the plan puts the city on track for the 2030 state target but falls short of 2045 carbon neutrality and will require future updates and an implementation work plan.
The San Ramon City Council unanimously adopted an updated Climate Action Plan (CAP) and related CEQA greenhouse‑gas thresholds on Tuesday, adopting Resolution No. 2025‑073 and directing that the CAP be treated as a living document with room for periodic updates.
Ryan Driscoll, associate planner, summarized the effort: the city updated its community greenhouse gas inventory and forecast and identified measures the city and community can take across seven strategies—building energy, transportation, waste, water and wastewater, nature‑based sequestration, and implementation pillars such as funding and equity. Kelsey Bennett, environmental sustainability planning director at Rincon Consultants, and colleague Emily Saul presented the technical analysis and the proposed measures.
The CAP uses a 2019 baseline community inventory of 437,784 metric tons of…
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