Title
Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan briefing
Recommended Action
Information only. No action requested.
Report
Issue:
The City is participating in a regional climate mitigation planning effort, which intersects with the BPAC's work and interests.
Staff Contact:
Susan Clark, Engineering and Planning Supervisor, Public Works Water Resources, 360.753.8321
Presenter(s):
Susan Clark
Background and Analysis:
Regional Climate Mitigation Planning
In April 2018, Thurston County, Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC) signed an Interlocal Agreement to complete Phase I of a regional Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan, with TRPC leading the effort. Phase I work resulted in the following regional greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets:
* 45% below 2015 levels by 2030
* 85% below 2015 levels by 2050
In November 2018, Olympia and the other regional jurisdictions approved a Phase II Interlocal Agreement addressing the development of the Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan. A draft version of the Plan has been published for the public to review. Staff sent Committee Members a link to the online open house, where they could review the Plan.
Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan Public Review Draft
The Draft Plan lays out a road map for continuing regional collaboration on reducing local greenhouse gas emissions. It is intended to provide Olympia and its project partners with a suite of solid strategies that will guide next steps, not lock the jurisdictions into specific actions that may not make sense as the details are worked out.
The framework for reducing local greenhouse gas emissions presented in the Draft Plan includes:
* Greening our grid
* Shifting energy sources
* Living lighter
* Storing carbon
* Building local capacity
Each action included in the Draft Plan will require additional work to understand its feasibility, cost and impacts as implementation is considered. As a first step in this work, the project partners have group...
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