Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

California legislation
Full_name= Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Status= Passed
Introduced= April 3, 2006
Assembly_Voted= August 31, 2006
Senate_Voted= August 30, 2006
Signed = September 27, 2006
Sponsors = Fabian Nunez
Governor = Arnold Schwarzenegger
Code = Health and Safety Code
Section = 38500, 38501, 28510, 38530, etc.
Resolution = AB32 (2005-2006 Session)
Associated_bills =
URL=http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/docs/ab32text.pdfThe Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is an environmental law in California, by Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 27, 2006. The bill effectively establishes a timetable to bring California into near compliance with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol. In signing the bill, Schwarzenegger declared, "We simply must do everything we can in power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The global warming debate is over."

Description

The Bill (AB 32), authored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Member Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), was agreed between Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators on August 30, 2006. It requires that by 2020 the state's greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels, a roughly 25% reduction under business as usual estimates. The California Air Resources Board, under the California Environmental Protection Agency, is to prepare plans to achieve the objectives stated in the Act.

As defined in the bill, “greenhouse gases” include all of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). These are the same gases listed as Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in the Kyoto Protocol.

History of the Bill

On June 26, 2006, the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee passed AB32 [ [http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=5308 CA Legislature Moves On Global Warming - Environmental Defense Fund ] ] with a vote of 4-2, and on September 27, the Governor signed it into law.

AB 32 Implementation Timeline

*December 31, 2006
** Last day to join California Climate Action Registry to receive recognition of voluntary GHG reporting and verification and be grandfathered into ARB’s reporting and verification program.

*January 1, 2007
** California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 .

* June 30, 2007
** ARB will publish the list of discrete early action GHG reduction measures that can be implemented until 2011.

* January 1, 2008
** ARB will adopt regulations to establish the state’s mandatory GHG reporting and verification program.
** ARB will determine the statewide 1990 baseline and set the statewide 2020 GHG emissions limit.

* January 1, 2009
** ARB will prepare and approve the plan for achieving 2020 statewide GHG emissions limit.

* January 1, 2010
** ARB will implement early action emission reduction measures (identified in June 2007), effective immediately.

* January 1, 2011
** ARB will adopt GHG emissions limits and emission reduction measures based on January 2009 scoping plan, effective in one year.
** ARB may adopt a market-based cap & trade system with associated limits on state’s GHG sources applicable from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2020.

* January 1, 2012
** Regulations based on January 2009 scoping plan will become effective.
** Market-based “cap-and-trade” regulations may become effective. 2020 Deadline for state to achieve 1990 levels of GHG emissions.

ee also

*Action on climate change
*Anaerobic digestion
*Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
*Biodiesel
*Bioethanol
*Biofuel
*Carbon footprint
*Carpooling
*Energy conservation
*European Climate Change Programme
*Government of California
*Kyoto Protocol
*List of climate change initiatives
*List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
*Politics of global warming
*Renewable energy
*Renewable energy commercialization in the United States
*United Kingdom Climate Change Bill

References

External links

* [http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/4111/ Governor's press release]
* [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_32&sess=PREV&house=B&author=nunez Legal documentation]
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* [http://www.solutionsforglobalwarming.org California - Global Warming]
* [http://trafficbulldog.org/news.php?cid=5 California Climate Change Initiative Public Comments]