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4.5 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 4.5-51 Table 4.5-8. Project Consistency with SJCOG’s 2018 RTP/SCS Policies and Supportive Strategies 2018 RTP/SCS Supportive Strategies Strategy Number Project Consistency Policy: Improve the Quality of Life for Residents Encourage transportation investments that support a greater mix of housing options at all income levels #25 No conflict. The Project would not prevent SJCOG from implementing this strategy. Improve the connection between land use and transportation #26 No conflict. The Project would not prevent SJCOG from implementing this strategy. Enhance public health through active transportation projects #27 No conflict. The Project would not prevent SJCOG from implementing this strategy. Source: SJCOG 2018. Notes: EV = electric vehicle; GHG = greenhouse gas; Project = Schulte Warehouse Project; SJCOG = San Joaquin Council of Governments; RTP/SCS = Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy Based on the analysis in Table 4.5-8, the Project would be consistent with the SJCOG 2018 RTP/SCS. Project Consistency with Senate Bill 32 and Executive Order S-3-05 The Project would not impede the attainment of the GHG reduction goals for 2030 or 2050 identified in EO S - 3-05 and SB 32. EO S -3-05 establishes the following goals: GHG emissions should be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010, to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. SB 32 establishes for a statewide GHG emissions reduction target whereby CARB, in adopting rules and regulations to a chieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost -effective GHG emissions reductions, must ensure that statewide GHG emissions are reduced to at least 40% below 1990 levels by December 31, 2030. Although there are no established protocols or thresholds of significance for that future year analysis , CARB forecasts that compliance with the current Scoping Plan puts the state on a trajectory of meeting these long -term GHG goals, although the specific path to compliance is unknown (CARB 2014). CARB has expressed optimism with regard to both the 2030 and 2050 goals. It states in the First Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan that “California is on track to meet the near -term 2020 GHG emissions limit and is well positioned to maintain and continue reductions beyond 2020 as required by AB 32” (CARB 2014). With regard to the 2050 target for reducing GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels, the First Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan states the following (CARB 2014): This level of reduction is achievable in California. In fact, if California realizes the expected benefits of existing policy goals (such as 12,000 megawatts of renewable distributed generation by 2020, net zero energy homes after 2020, existing building retrofits under AB 758, and others) it could reduce emissions by 2030 to levels squarely in line with those needed in the developed world and to stay on track to reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Additional measures, including locally driven measures and those necessary to m eet federal air quality standards in 2032, could lead to even greater emission reductions. In other words, CARB believes that the state is on a trajectory to meet the 2030 and 2050 GHG reduction targets set forth in AB 32, SB 32, and EO S -3 -05. This is confirmed in the 2030 Scoping Plan, which states the following (CARB 2017):