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Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions Oregon Water Resources Commission

Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions Oregon Water Resources Commission Climate Change Workshop. Sam Sadler January 14, 2005. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming. Governor’s Advisory Group Appointed by the Governor in early 2004

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Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions Oregon Water Resources Commission

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  1. Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions Oregon Water Resources Commission Climate Change Workshop Sam Sadler January 14, 2005

  2. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Governor’s Advisory Group • Appointed by the Governor in early 2004 • Public and private representation (28 members) with support from technical subcommittees • Coordinated with West Coast Governors’ Global Warming Initiative • Adopted “Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions” in December by unanimous vote • Published report will be transmitted to Governor in early 2005

  3. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Major Recommendations • New Goals: 10% below 1990 levels by 2020 • 75% below 1990 by 2050 • Meet Northwest Power and Conservation Council target of capturing at least 960 average megawatts (aMW) of electricity savings and comparable savings of gas and oil. • Increase retail energy sales from renewable resources by one percent or more annually through 2015 (about 150 aMW per biennium).

  4. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Major Recommendations • Recommend that the Governor to create a special interim task force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a design for, a load-based allowance standard for utility and industrial greenhouse gas emissions. • Renewable portfolio standard is an alternate or complementary approach for electricity, with an assumption that it would be at least 25%.

  5. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Major Recommendations • Convene task force to recommend to the Environmental Quality Commissions or the Governor and 2007 Legislature a proposal for adopting California greenhouse gas emission standards for new vehicles. • Promote biofuel use and production. • Integrate land use and transportation decisions with greenhouse gas consequences.

  6. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Major Recommendations • Achieve waste disposal and recovery goals adopted in statute. • Reduce wildfire risk by creating a market for woody biomass from forests. • Increase forestation of under-producing lands • Continue an Advisory Group to address adaptation to climate change, implementation of mitigation recommendations, and public education.

  7. Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming Major Recommendations • State agencies should use their agency Sustainability Plans as the tool for agencies’ dynamic involvement in greenhouse gas reductions with respect to both their internal operations and their external program or regulatory activities.

  8. Historic and Forecast Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oregon and Estimated Cumulative Reduction from All Measures in Sequence

  9. Contact Sam Sadler Senior Analyst Oregon Department of Energy 625 NE Marion Street Salem, OR 97301-3737 503.373.1034 (v) 800.221.8035 in Oregon 503.373.7806 (f) samuel.r.sadler@state.or.us www.energy.state.or.us/climate/Warming/Strategy.htm

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