Update statewide GHG emission scoping plan.
- Date Due:
- 01/01/2028
- Responsible Entity:
- CAC
- Action:
- Update statewide GHG emission scoping plan.
- Summary:
- The CAC will update its scoping plan for achieving the statewide GHG emissions limits at least once every five years; make the updates available to the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Temporary President of the Senate; and post the updates on its website.
- Status:
- PENDING: The December 2022 Scoping Plan can be found here.
- Statute:
- CLCPA § 2 adds new ECL § 75-0103(15).
The CAC must update its scoping plan every five years; the initial final plan is due on January 1, 2023. The scoping plan will be published here once it is available.
Statutory Language:
CLCPA §75-0103(15): “The council shall update its plan for achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits at least once every five years and shall make such updates available to the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate and post such updates on its website.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Motor vehicles
- Land-use and transportation planning measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, and mechanisms to limit emission leakage as defined in subdivision eleven of section 75-0101 of the CLCPA.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Renewable energy installation & storage
- Measures to achieve six gigawatts of distributed solar energy capacity installed in the state, nine gigawatts of offshore wind capacity installed, a statewide energy efficiency goal of one hundred eighty-five trillion British thermal units energy reduction from the 2025 forecast; and three gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by 2030.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Transportation
- Measures to promote the beneficial electrification of personal and freight transport and other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Residential & commercial buildings
- Measures to achieve reductions in energy use in existing residential or commercial buildings, including the beneficial electrification of water and space heating in buildings, establishing appliance efficiency standards, strengthening building energy codes, requiring annual building energy benchmarking, disclosing energy efficiency in home sales, and expanding the ability of state facilities to utilize performance contracting.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Clean energy employment growth
- Recommendations to aid in the transition of the state workforce and the rapidly emerging clean energy industry.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Afforestation
- Measures to achieve healthy forests that support clean air and water, biodiversity, and sequester carbon.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Toxic chemical reduction
- Measures to limit the use of chemicals, substances or products that contribute to global climate change when released to the atmosphere, but are not intended for end-use combustion, and verifiable, enforceable and voluntary emissions reduction measures.
- The plan must include
(by subject matter): - Comprehensive Evaluation: must quantify:
- The economic and social benefits of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, taking into account the value of carbon, established by the DEC (CLCPA§75-0113), any other tools that the CAC deems useful and pertinent for this analysis, and any environmental, economic and public health co-benefits (such as the reduction of co-pollutants and the diversification of energy sources). Along with the costs of implementing proposed emissions reduction measures.