Transcript Sam Sadler

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
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Appointed by the Governor in early 2004
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Public and private representation (28 members)
with support from technical subcommittees
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Coordinated with West Coast Governors’ Global
Warming Initiative
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Adopted “Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas
Reductions” in December by unanimous vote
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Published report will be transmitted to Governor
in early 2005
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Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming
Major Recommendations
New Goals: 10% below 1990 levels by 2020
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75% below 1990 by 2050
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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.
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Increase retail energy sales from renewable
resources by one percent or more annually
through 2015 (about 150 aMW per biennium).
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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 loadbased allowance standard for utility and
industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
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Renewable portfolio standard is an alternate
or complementary approach for electricity,
with an assumption that it would be at least
25%.
Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming
Major Recommendations
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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.
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Promote biofuel use and production.
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Integrate land use and transportation decisions
with greenhouse gas consequences.
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Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming
Major Recommendations
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Achieve waste disposal and recovery goals
adopted in statute.
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Reduce wildfire risk by creating a market for
woody biomass from forests.
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Increase forestation of under-producing lands
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Continue an Advisory Group to address
adaptation to climate change, implementation of
mitigation recommendations, and public
education.
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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.
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Historic and Forecast Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oregon and
Estimated Cumulative Reduction from All Measures in Sequence
100
170%
160%"Business-As-Usual"
90
150% Energy Efficiency Actions
140% 25% Renew able Portfolio Standard
80
130%
Transport Actions
120%
Materials Actions
110%
Biological Sequestration Actions
100%
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1990 em issions
90%
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10% below 1990 em issions by 2020
80%
70%
40
60%
30
50%
40%
20
10
30%
20%
75% below 1990 em issions by 2050
10%
0
1990
0%
1995
2000
2005
2010
Year
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2015
2020
2025
Percent of 1990 Emissions
MMTCO2E
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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)
[email protected]
www.energy.state.or.us/climate/Warming/Strategy.htm
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