California Air Resources Board Preparing Scoping Plan For Carbon Neutral Future

The California Air Resources Board ("CARB") is conducting public workshops during the fall of 2021 as part of its planning for the next Climate Change Scoping Plan, which will lay out strategies for achieving California's greenhouse gas emission ("GHG") reduction targets and related climate change goals. Current state law sets the GHG emission reduction target at 40% below 1990 level by 2030, and a 2018 Executive Order requires state agencies to pursue carbon neutrality by 2045. CARB must update the Scoping Plan every five years, with the next update due in 2022. During the current round of public workshops (through November 2, 2021), CARB will hear comments on four draft scenarios it has developed for use in modeling the state's progress toward the 2030 goal, and potential pathways to carbon neutrality. This modeling will inform CARB's preparation of the Scoping Plan.