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for government operations. Recently, the Action Team completed the mission statement, guiding principles and goals for this action plan. Each City department will be instrumental in developing the overall Plan by identifying ways the department can modify current operating practices to reduce energy and resource consumption, maximize resource life-cycles and enhance energy efficiency. The City Council, by adopting the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in June 2009, paved the way for further climate action initiatives. Additionally, the Climate Protection Action Team has been working with all City departments to complete the development of the City’s Climate Action Plan in conjunction with the preparation of the City’s next two-year budget (Fiscal Years 2010- 2012). Daly City has already made significant progress in minimizing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from government operations. Below is a brief list of the efforts already undertaken by the City: Operation of hybrid vehicles and of bio-diesel vehicles; Exploitation and sale of tertiary recycled water; and, Energy audits and facilities improvements Daly City continues to explore and implement solutions to reduce the causes of global warming and preserve and protect our climate and environment. Through the adoption of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, as well as the completion of the ICLEI Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and the Climate Action Plan, Daly City will again demonstrate its leadership on one of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time. 1.5 The Silicon Valley Climate Protection Partnership The Silicon Valley Climate Protection Partnership is a joint effort between Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (JV:SVN); Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV); local governments in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties (hereby referred to as the “Silicon Valley area”); and ICLEI. The Partnership was initiated in 2008 to provide a solid regional platform for local governments to follow ICLEI’s Five-Milestone process (described in Section 1.2), as well as a shared learning experience. In early 2008, JV:SVN contracted with ICLEI to conduct government operations emissions inventories for participating local governments, using the standards outlined in the then soon-to-be-released Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP—see Appendix A for details). For this project, 27 local governments have signed onto this contract. SSV joined the Partnership to provide additional educational and other services to facilitate more rapid progress by participating governments through the Five Milestones. While ICLEI created these inventories concurrently using the same tools and methods, each inventory was conducted independently using data specific to each local government’s operations. For this reason, inventories from different jurisdictions will involve different sources of data and emissions calculation methods. 2005 Daly City Government Operations Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory 6
Alongside the activities of the Partnership, JV:SVN and SSV have been facilitating regional climate dialogues to further emissions reductions goals in the Silicon Valley area. JV:SVN supports the work of the Climate Protection Task Force, a group that includes staff members from 44 jurisdictions in the Silicon Valley area, including cities, counties, and special districts. In this neutral forum, the partners learn from each other and from expert guests about climate protection programs. They then work to develop effective, collaborative programs for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from public agency operations. SSV holds quarterly conferences and monthly meetings that discuss specific approaches to addressing climate change, including the pros and cons of regional climate planning. SSV also puts out annual reports highlighting successes of businesses and local governments that have voluntarily pledged to set and work toward their own carbon dioxide reduction goals. JV:SVN and SSV, along with ICLEI, the San Mateo City/County Association of Governments, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District6, have dramatically pushed forward the pace and scale of climate actions by local governments in the Silicon Valley area. 6 C/CAG and the Air Quality District have provided funding which have allowed a number of these inventories to occur and have been strong players in pushing forward local and regional actions on climate change. 2005 Daly City Government Operations Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory 7
Page 1 and 2: Daly City’s Green Vision A Climat
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Page 5 and 6: Chapter 2: Meaningful Action Alread
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