Climate change is here. Pass the California Climate Crisis Act

The Clean Air Task Force advocates for the passage of the California Climate Crisis Act (AB-1395), which would codify California's goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 and maintaining negative emissions thereafter. The Act would require the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to update its Scoping Plan to include nature-based and technology-based solutions, specifically carbon capture, removal, and storage. The authors argue that such policy action is essential to address the immediate impacts of drought and wildfire in California and to maintain the state's position as a global climate leader.

• The California Climate Crisis Act (AB-1395) seeks to turn a previous Executive Order into law by codifying a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 and maintaining negative greenhouse gas emissions after that date.
• AB-1395 establishes an interim emissions reduction target of 90% by 2045 and mandates that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) update its Climate Change Scoping Plan to recommend measures for reaching these targets.
• The Act emphasizes the necessity of both nature-based and technology-based mitigation, specifically carbon capture, removal, and storage; if passed, it would be the first state law to directly support these technologies in the state's climate portfolio.

APA

Grove, B., & Jaruzel, M. (2021). Climate change is here. Pass the California Climate Crisis Act. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2021/08/climate-change-is-here-pass-the-california-crisis-act/

Chicago

Grove, Ben, and Marc Jaruzel. Climate change is here. Pass the California Climate Crisis Act. Clean Air Task Force, 2021. https://www.catf.us/2021/08/climate-change-is-here-pass-the-california-crisis-act/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{grove2021climate, author = {Grove, Ben and Jaruzel, Marc}, title = {{Climate change is here. Pass the California Climate Crisis Act}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2021}, month = aug, url = {https://www.catf.us/2021/08/climate-change-is-here-pass-the-california-crisis-act/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }