International Agreement For Climate Change In San Diego
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Since 2006, the Climate Initiative has supported organizations that build equitable climate resilience through research, education, community engagement and programs that benefit historically underserved communities and low-income, climate-vulnerable populations.
PROGRAM BACKGROUND The State's Climate Resilience Package includes a total of $20 million for this program: $10 million in the 2022-23 fiscal year. The Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCC) Program is a new capacity building grant program for under-resourced communities in California.
The Paris Agreement speaks of the vision of fully realizing technology development and transfer for both improving resilience to climate change and reducing GHG emissions. It establishes a technology framework to provide overarching guidance to the well-functioning Technology Mechanism.
The County's Board of Supervisors adopted Wednesday the 2024 Climate Action Plan (2024 CAP), a blueprint for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the unincorporated area and at County facilities to reach net zero emissions by 2045. The document features 70 actions that reduce GHG emissions.
The Climate Division of the Sustainability & Mobility Department leads the implementation of the City's landmark Climate Action Plan (CAP). The 2022 CAP establishes a community-wide goal of net zero by 2035, committing San Diego to an accelerated trajectory for greenhouse gas reductions.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessment of climate change. It is a key source of scientific information and technical guidance to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Paris Agreement.
Both the Kyoto Protocol at the outset and the Paris Agreement, which is currently in force, lay the foundations for achieving global targets.
Environmental activists who sued the city of San Diego in 2022, arguing its climate action plan lacked funding and a timeline for meeting its goals, have agreed to a settlement.
The Paris Agreement was the first legally-binding global treaty on climate change. It was agreed in 2015 and was implemented from 2016. It sets a long-term temperature target of keeping global warming 'well-below' 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and 'pursuing efforts' to keep it below 1.5°C.