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5.21 Climate Change

a statewide reduction of GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990
levels by 2050. Per SB 391, the California Transportation Plan update must be adopted by
December 31, 2015 and updated every five years thereafter. Pursuant to SB 391, in June
2016, Caltrans adopted California Transportation Plan 2040 (CTP 2040), which provides a
long-range policy framework to meet future statewide mobility needs and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions for the transportation sector. (Caltrans 2016a) The CTP 2040
outlines goals and recommendations to achieve a safe, sustainable, accessible, and
competitive transportation system that provides reliable mobility while meeting the state’s
GHG reduction goals over a 20 year planning horizon. Per SB 391, the CTP 2040 is scheduled
to be updated every five years, starting in 2021.

Executive Order B-32-15 and the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan

Executive Order B-32-15 (July 17, 2015) requires the California State Transportation
Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Natural Resources
Agency, CARB, Caltrans, the California Energy Commission, and the Governor’s Office of
Business and Economic Development to develop an integrated action plan by July 2016 to
establish clear targets to improve freight efficiency and transition to zero-emission
technologies, and to identify state policies, programs, and investments to meet these targets.
Pursuant to Executive Order B-32-15, in July 2016, the participating agencies published the
California Sustainable Freight Action Plan (Freight Action Plan) (CARB 2016b). The Freight
Action Plan recommends a high-level vision for a sustainable freight transportation system
and 11 guiding principles for state agencies to utilize when developing specific policies,
investments, and programs related to the California freight transportation system. The
Freight Action Plan also establishes targets to (i) improve freight system efficiency 25
percent by increasing the value of goods and services produced from the freight sector
relative to amount of carbon that it produces by 2030, and (ii) deploy over 100,000 freight
vehicles and equipment capable of zero emission operation and to maximize near-zero
emission freight vehicles and equipment powered by renewable energy by 2030. Per the
Freight Action Plan, its targets are not mandates, but rather aspirational measures of
progress toward sustainability for the State to meet and try to exceed; under the plan, state
agencies will measure and report progress on the statewide Freight Action Plan targets, and
evaluate the targets to determine necessary adjustments.

California 2016 Mobile Source Strategy

On May 16, 2016, CARB published the updated Mobile Source Strategy 2016, which
establishes a comprehensive statewide strategy to reduce emissions from mobile sources to
meet climate change and air quality goals over a fifteen year planning horizon. (CARB 2016c)
The Mobile Source Strategy sets forth several measures CARB is proposing to achieve its
mobile source emission reduction goals, including a heavy-duty low NOx engine standards
and a “last-mile” delivery regulation that would require the use of low-NOx engines as a
stepping stone to zero-emission trucks. The Mobile Source Strategy also provides a
framework to inform updates to the State Implementation Plan strategy, the California
Sustainable Freight Action Plan, and the Short-Lived Climate Pollution Reduction Strategy,
and revises the Advance Clean Transit strategy to include low-NOx engines to transit busses.
Additional mobile source emission reduction measures described in the Mobile Source

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