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Global Challenge | Regional Response

A Partnership of:

Municipalities: City of Oakland City of San Jose City of San Francisco City of Saratoga Santa Clara County City of Mountain View City of Cupertino City of Redwood City City of Morgan Hill City of Fremont City of Los Gatos

Non-Profits: Environmental Defense Fund Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network SolarTech Sustainable Silicon Valley Business Associations: Bay Area Council  Silicon Valley Leadership Group Agencies: California Energy Commission Joint Policy Committee

The most wide-ranging and profound environmental challenge facing humanity is climate change. Fossil fuel consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions are putting our ecosystem under great strain. Furthermore, our homeland security and economic stability are threatened by our reliance on unpredictable supplies of hydrocarbon fuels from unstable governments. The Bay Area faces a variety of unique challenges in taking action to address global warming. Beyond individual organizational goals, there is a profound need for coordinated action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by transforming our economy from one based on coal, oil, and gas to one that runs on clean, renewable energy.

Response: Bay Area Climate Change Collaborative – Regional Response to a Global Challenge

No one agency, company or organization’s actions alone can effectively address the challenge of climate change. The Bay Area Climate Change Collaborative recognizes the need for cross-sector, regional collaboration to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other best practices at the regional, State and Federal levels to address the challenge of climate change. The Collaborative brings together leaders from government, the business community, academia, and not-for-profit advocacy groups to address the challenge of climate change across the region to best meet these challenges and sustain our quality of life.

Collaborative Objectives

• Guide and develop, by joint example, actions that reduce the region’s greenhouse gas emissions, and increase the region’s resiliency to the impacts of climate change
• Proactively create cross-sector, cross-jurisdictional and public-private partnerships across the region in support of implementation of the Bay Area Climate Change Compact
• Work together to leverage local, state and federal resources to implement the Bay Area Climate Change Compact
• Share information and best practices on climate change mitigation and adaptation

At the heart of our work is the Bay Area Climate Change Compact, which provides a roadmap forward.  Current signatories to the Compact and members of the Collaborative include: City of San Jose, City of San Francisco, City of Oakland, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Joint Venture Silicon Valley

Read the full text of the Bay Area Climate Change Compact