Climate Change Programs
Welcome
This website provides information on implementing California’s Scoping Plan. The Plan is a central requirement of Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, requiring California to develop regulations that will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
What's New
- Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy
- Notice of Public Workshops to Discuss Revised Proposed Strategy and Environmental Analysis (December 12th, 15th, and 16th, 2016)
- August 29, 2016: U.S. EPA releases its MSW New Source Performance Standards and Emission Guidelines
- 2030 Scoping Plan Update
- 2030 GHG Reduction Target
Assembly Bill 32 Implementation and Other Activities
- Activities
- Governor's Pillars: 2030 GHG Goals
- Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)
- SB 375 Regional Targets
- Scoping Plan
- AB 32 Fee Regulation
- Cap-and-Trade
- Advanced Clean Cars
- Auction Proceeds
- Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
- U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan
- Advisory Committees
- Mandatory GHG Reporting
- GHG Emission Inventory
- Compliance Offset Protocols
- Public Health Workgroup
- Take Action
- Green Economy
- Sectors
Background
California's major initiatives for reducing climate change or GHG emissions are outlined in Assembly Bill 32 (signed into law 2006), 2005 Executive Order and a regulation to reduce passenger car GHG emissions. These efforts aim at reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 - a reduction of approximately 30 percent, and then an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050. The main strategies for making these reductions are outlined in the Scoping Plan. Also provided here are links to state agencies and other groups working on climate issues which are being coordinated by the state’s Climate Action Team.