2022 – Assembly Bill 284 (Rivas, Robert), California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Climate Goal: Natural And Working Lands. (Dead)
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Would have required CARB, when updating the scoping plan and in collaboration with the Natural Resources Agency and other relevant state agencies and departments, to take specified actions by January 1, 2023, including, among others, identifying a 2045 climate goal, with interim milestones, for the state’s natural and working lands, as defined, and identifying practices, policy incentives, market needs, and potential reductions in barriers that would help achieve the 2045 climate goal. The bill would have required CARB, no later than January 1, 2024, to develop standard methods for state agencies to consistently track greenhouse gas emissions reductions, carbon sequestration, and additional benefits from natural and working lands over time. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.