Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy

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eporting requirements, as well as merge and streamline reporting activities with current forms and requirements to avoid duplicative reporting wherever feasible. For landfills, ARB will work with CalRecycle to develop a regulation by 2018 to effectively eliminate organic disposal in landfills by 2025. To support this, CalRecycle will build on its partnerships with local governments, industry, nonprofits, local air districts and water boards to support regional planning efforts and identify ways to safely and effectively develop necessary organics recycling capacity. CalRecycle will also explore new ways to foster food waste prevention and food rescue, to help meet a goal of 10 percent food rescue by 2020, and 20 percent by 2025. Recovering and utilizing food that would otherwise be landfilled can help to reduce methane emissions and increase access to healthy foods for millions of Californians who suffer from food insecurity. Additionally, ARB and CalRecycle will work with the State and regional Water Boards to assess the feasibility and benefits of actions to require capturing and effectively utilizing methane generated from wastewater treatment, and opportunities for co-digestion of food waste at existing or new anaerobic digesters at wastewater treatment plants. This Proposed Strategy also establishes a goal of reducing fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas by 40 percent below current levels in 2025 and 45 percent in 2030, and from all other sources by 40 percent in 2030. This aligns with the Obama Administration goal of reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40–45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. California has a comprehensive and stringent emerging framework to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas systems. ARB is developing a regulation to reduce fugitive methane emissions from the oil and gas production, processing and storage sector, which will be among the most stringent such regulations in the country. Additionally, pursuant to Senate Bill 1371 (Leno, Chapter 525, Statutes of 2014), the California Public Utilities Commission has launched a rulemaking to minimize methane leaks from natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines. Increases in energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as more dense development patterns, will reduce oil and gas demand and fugitive emissions. ARB and the California Energy Commission (CEC) have also conducted several research projects to improve methane emission monitoring and accounting, as well as identify emission “hotspots,” which are responsible for large fractions of total fugitive emissions. These efforts will continue, and are critical to accelerating leak detection and fugitive methane emission reductions from all sectors, not just oil and gas. Ultimately, to 8 April 11, 2016
eliminate fugitive methane emissions, the State needs to transition away from its use of oil and natural gas. HFCs Fluorinated gases, and in particular HFCs, are the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions in California and globally. More than three-quarters of HFC emissions in California come from the use of refrigerants in the commercial, industrial, residential, and transportation sectors. In many cases, alternatives with much lower GWPs are already available and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is beginning to impose bans on the use of F-gases with the highest GWPs in certain applications and sectors. Additionally, there is strong international momentum and interest to phase down the use of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol, as has already been done for other F-gases. The annual Meeting of Parties in November 2015 resulted in a decision to continue working on an HFC phasedown schedule in 2016. In the absence of a sufficiently rigorous international agreement by the end of 2016, ARB will evaluate the feasibility of a phasedown for California that aligns with similar efforts and stringency levels in Australia, Canada, Europe, and Japan. California can complement these national and potential international actions by taking additional steps to reduce HFC emissions at low cost. Early action, ahead of some of the phase down schedules being proposed internationally, can avoid locking-in the use of high-GWP refrigerants in new or retrofitted systems in the coming years. Without early action to reduce unnecessary emissions now and into the future, the State would need to take additional— likely more costly—steps to meet its 2030 climate targets. An important step would be developing an incentive program to encourage the use of low- GWP refrigerants, which could lead to very low cost emission reductions and could be implemented while further regulations are considered or developed. The Governor's proposed 2016-2017 budget includes $20 million for incentives to reduce HFC emissions from refrigerants. Also, as effective alternatives become available, ARB will consider developing bans on the use of high-GWP refrigerants in sectors and applications not covered by U.S. EPA regulations. This Proposed Strategy identifies measures that can reduce HFC emissions by 40 percent in California by 2030 and potentially capture additional, available reductions in HFC emissions now, and into the future. Many of these measures could have associated energy efficiency benefits, as well. A summary of all proposed SLCP emission reduction measures and estimated reductions is presented in Table 2. 9 April 11, 2016
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Page 5 and 6: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Eureka! Synonymou
Page 7 and 8: electrical generation, transportati
Page 9 and 10: anthropogenic (non-forest) black ca
Page 11: these plans complement one another.
Page 15 and 16: Cost-Effective Measures with Signif
Page 17 and 18: I. Introduction: Showing the Way to
Page 19 and 20: Significant reductions in SLCP emis
Page 21 and 22: often highest, and where further ec
Page 23 and 24: ARB developed this proposed SLCP Re
Page 25 and 26: To support these efforts, the CATRW
Page 27 and 28: II. California’s Approach to Redu
Page 29 and 30: and nutrient management issues on f
Page 31 and 32: D. Invest in SLCP Emission Reductio
Page 33 and 34: While improving data access and qua
Page 35 and 36: III. Latest Understanding of Scienc
Page 37 and 38: y the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Pa
Page 39 and 40: adiative forcing published by Bond
Page 41 and 42: B. Methane Methane is the principal
Page 43 and 44: they continue to replace ozone depl
Page 45 and 46: Figure 1: California 2013 Anthropog
Page 47 and 48: apply to approximately 150,000 off-
Page 49 and 50: include winter burning curtailment,
Page 51 and 52: Figure 3: California’s 2030 Anthr
Page 53 and 54: While we must act to reduce wildfir
Page 55 and 56: comprehensive planning and strategi
Page 57 and 58: Forest and Watershed Health: Thinni
Page 59 and 60: continue working with Federal agenc
Page 61 and 62: enefits into programs and cost/bene
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emissions from these sources, captu
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producers' costs of connecting to u
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elow 2 o C—including meeting the
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California has the most dairy cows
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The 2020 and 2025 targets could be
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consideration of available financia
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Research Mitigation Strategies for
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average of collection efficiencies
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nitrogen budgets in the Irrigated L
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California also has about 215,000 m
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not recur. 114 ARB and DOGGR will c
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VI. Reducing HFC Emissions Hydroflu
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through the Montreal Protocol to ph
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Figure 10: California’s 2030 HFC
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Although lower-GWP options are curr
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more than 75 percent compared to bu
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For agricultural commodity fumigati
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Plan will augment the strategies pr
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Local efforts to reduce diesel part
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Truck Loan Assistance Program for s
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of commitments and planning efforts
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Standard (RFS) incentivize the use
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effective. However, rural districts
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Table 9: Range of Costs (Million Do
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ARB conducted a Geographic Informat
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Cellulosic RIN Credit Price Table 1
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Table 13: Mix of Strategies in Scen
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some higher cost strategies, includ
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A principal difference in outcomes
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Cellulosic RIN credit prices Table
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Table 18: Costs and Emissions for O
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electricity from the Cap and Trade
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diesel equipment. 165 (NO X emissio
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Food rescue and recovery could deli
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freight corridors in the East Bay,
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IX. Next Steps This Proposed Strate
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