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Moving California Forward: How Smart Growth Can Help California Reach Its 2030 Climate Target While Creating Economic and Environmental Co-Benefits
This study shows that implementation of smart land use policy, in combination with technological advances in the energy sector, will be critical for the state to… Read More »
Half the Oil: Pathways to Reduce Petroleum Use on the West Coast
This report shows how Washington, Oregon, and California could cut their petroleum use in half by 2030.
Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation: Results from the First Round and Policy Recommendations for Future Rounds
This report looks at how conservation strategies can help avoid sprawl to achieve the greenhouse gas targets and land use goals related to SB 375. The… Read More »
Another Inconvenient Truth: To Achieve Climate Change Goals, California Must Remove Barriers to Sustainable Land Use
This report looks at how the Bay Area must aggressively increase the production of housing and focus on Priority Development Areas to make it possible for more… Read More »
Advancing Equity in California Climate Policy: A New Social Contract for a Low-Carbon Transition
This report sets out to guide the ongoing climate policy conversation in the state by identifying ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring that low-income… Read More »
Equity in Building Resilience in Adaptation Planning
The NAACP released a set of resilience indicators to guide communities toward integrating an equity lens as they design climate adaptation plans so that protection… Read More »
California’s Green Innovation Index: Eighth Edition
This report tracks California’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, spurring technological and business innovation, and growing businesses and jobs that enable the transition to… Read More »
The Northern California Megaregion: Innovative, Connected, Growing
This report looks at environmental and economic trends across the Bay Area, Sacramento Area, Northern San Joaquin Valley, and Monterey Bay Area: the “Northern California… Read More »
Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation
This report looks at the potential of SB 375 to transform land use in California and includes a survey of conservation measures in existing Sustainable… Read More »