Sustainability Overview

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The City of Sunnyvale is committed to sustainability and climate action. Sunnyvale's updated climate action plan – called the Climate Action Playbook (or "Playbook") – is a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. The Climate Action Playbook was born out of the Climate Action Plan 2.0 (CAP 2.0) Initiative (2017), a framework to update Sunnyvale's updated Climate Action Plan (CAP 1.0) from 2014 and accelerate local action to further prevent climate change. The Climate Action Playbook was adopted in August 2019 and replaces the CAP 1.0. In June 2024 the Climate Action Playbook was updated along with the adoption of Game Plan 2028.

Just as a sports playbook identifies a team's winning strategies to achieve success on the field, the Playbook contains bold, winning strategies to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 56% by 2030 and 85% by 2045. The 2024 Playbook update draws more than 400 ideas, which were sourced from ongoing ideas generated for CAP 1.0 and CAP 2.0 development, City staff, consultants and community members. The Playbook will enable us to build a healthy and sustainable community for Sunnyvale residents, businesses and visitors.

Six Core Strategies

Community ideas have inspired the Playbook's six core Strategies that set the foundation for bold climate action:

• Promoting clean electricity
• Decarbonizing buildings
• Decarbonizing transportation and sustainable land use
• Managing resources sustainably
• Empowering our community
• Adapting to a changing climate

Within each Strategy, the Playbook defines:

• Plays that identify opportunities for action. Plays have measurable targets that will help assess progress towards goals.
• Moves that define specific actions our City and community can collectively take to address climate change.

Game Plan 2028

The Playbook includes Game Plan 2028 – a compilation of "Next Moves" to focus on in the next five years. This Game Plan will be updated every five years as new technologies emerge and new state or local regulations go into effect. While it is impossible to envision all the right Moves today, the Playbook clearly defines the end game, identifies key players, and sets the ball rolling towards the goal posts.

Final Climate Action Playbook Documents

• Climate Action Playbook 2024 Update and Game Plan 2028
• At-A-Glance: Game Plan 2028
• Appendix B: Ideas Roster
• Appendix C: GHG Emissions Reductions Technical Report
• Final IS-ND
• Final CEQA GHG Emissions Thresholds
• 2019 Climate Action Playbook with Appendices

Related Documents

Report to Council 24-0423, June 25 - Adopt a Resolution to amend the Climate Action Playbook, adopt Game Plan 2028 and California Environmental Quality Act Greenhouse Gas Emissions Thresholds and adopt a Negative Declaration for the Climate Action Playbook Update/Game Plan 2028 and California Environmental Quality Act Greenhouse Gas Emissions Thresholds.

• Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report 2017-18
• Climate Action Plan 1.0
• CAP Biennial Progress Report 2016
• CAP Biennial Progress Report 2018

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