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Planning and Measurement
State Advisory Board
Status: Completed
Details: On September 9, 2006, the Governor signed Executive Order 2006-13, establishing a Climate Change Executive Committee whose task is to develop a strategy to implement the recommendations in Arizona's Climate Change Action Plan and to explore ways to meet the statewide GHG goals (also laid out in the same Executive Order). On February 2, 2005, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed Executive Order 2005-02 , establishing the Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group (CCAG).
Regional Initiatives
Status: Completed
Details: Member of the Western Climate Initiative. On February 26, 2007, the Governors of five western states established the Western Climate Initiative, committing to establish an overall regional goal to reduce GHG emissions within 6 months, develop a design for a regional market-based multi-sector mechanism within 18 months to achieve the regional goal, and participate in a multi-state GHG registry. The WCI unveiled its draft greenhouse gas reduction strategy on July 23, 2008. A final version of the plan is due in September 2008, and each state and province will then be left to adopt the recommendations.
On February 28, 2006, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed an agreement launching the Southwest Climate Change Initiative, which established a framework for the two states to collaborate on strategies to address the impacts of climate change in the Southwest and to reduce GHG emissions in the region.
- http://www.westernclimateinitiative.org/
- http://www.nmclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O117F8087.pdf
GHG Inventory
Status: Completed
Details: Completed in June 2005; inventory and reference case projections 1990-2020.
- http://www.azclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O40F8419.pdf
- http://www.azclimatechange.gov/
- http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/AZSummary_03_08.pdf
Climate Change Action Plan
Status: Completed
Details: Completed in August 2006 by the Climate Change Advisory Group (created by the Governor in 2005); contains 49 policy recommendations for addressing and reducing GHGs.
Targets and Caps
Lead by Example Target
Status: No Activity Identified
Statewide GHG Target
Status: Completed
Details: On August 22, 2007, a coalition of six Western states and two Canadian provinces - the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) - announced that they set a regional goal of reducing GHG emissions 15% below 2005 levels by 2020 to fight global warming. Arizona became a member of the WCI partnership in February 2007. In September 2006, Governor Napolitano signed Executive Order 2006-13 after receiving a report from her Climate Change Advisory Group (CCAG), which establishes a statewide goal to reduce Arizona's future GHG emissions to 2000 levels by the year 2020, and to 50% below the 2000 level by 2040.
- http://www.azclimatechange.gov/download/082207_statement.pdf
- http://www.azclimatechange.gov/index.html
Statewide GHG Cap
Status: Proposed
Details: On October 29, 2007, a group of public authorities and governments announced its membership in the International Carbon Action Partnership. The group members have established or are actively pursuing carbon markets through mandatory cap and trade systems as one approach for reducing GHG emissions. The Governors of five western states established the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative on February 26, 2007, committing to establish an overall regional goal to reduce GHG emissions within 6 months and develop a design for a regional market-based multi-sector mechanism within 18 months to achieve the regional goal.
- http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/2007-02-26_WesternClimateAgreementFinal.pdf
- http://www.westernclimateinitiative.org/
- http://www.icapcarbonaction.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=105&lang=en
Reporting
Electricity Disclosure
Status: Completed
Details: Under the 1996 provisions, retail electricity suppliers must disclose composition, fuel mix, and emissions characteristics upon request.
GHG Registry
Status: In Progress
Details: Arizona is a member of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), which is considering various options for establishing a GHG registry and reporting system that will require some facilities and sectors to report (and reduce) their GHG emissions. The WCI unveiled its draft greenhouse gas reduction strategy on July 23, 2008. A final version of the plan is due in September 2008, and each state and province will then be left to adopt the recommendations.
Member of The Climate Registry - a collaboration aimed at developing and managing a common GHG emissions reporting system across states, provinces, and tribes. It will provide an accurate, complete, consistent, transparent, and verified set of GHG emissions data from reporting entities, supported by a robust accounting and verification infrastructure. Members released a final General Reporting Protocol in May 2008. The Climate Registry plans to start accepting data in summer 2008.
Mandatory GHG Reporting
Status: Proposed
Details: Arizona is a member of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), which is considering various options for establishing a GHG reporting system that will require some facilities and sectors to report (and reduce) their GHG emissions. The WCI unveiled its draft greenhouse gas reduction strategy on July 23, 2008. A final version of the plan is due in September 2008, and each state and province will then be left to adopt the recommendations.
Power Sector
CO2 Offset Requirements
Status: No Activity Identified
GHG Performance Standard
Status: No Activity Identified
Advanced Coal Technology
Status: No Activity Identified
Power Sector GHG Cap and Trade
Status: Proposed
Details: Arizona is a member of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). By August 2008, partners will complete the design of a market-based mechanism to achieve WCI's greenhouse gas reduction goal.
Transportation Sector
GHG Auto Standards
Status: In Progress
Details: On May 6, 2008, Arizona completed its rulemaking process and formally adopted the vehicle standards. Around the same time, the state legislature passed a bill to require legislative approval of the standards, but Governor Napolitano vetoed the bill on May 15, 2008.
On January 10, 2008, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) announced draft rules requiring that each automobile manufacturer reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions from its total sales in the state by 37 percent by 2016.
On January 2, 2008, California filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. EPA's denial of the state's effort to regulate GHG emissions from motor vehicles, in response to EPA's rejection of a petition for a Clean Air Act waiver on December 19, 2007. A waiver is required for California and other states to implement a vehicle emissions standard tougher than the federal one. The proposed auto standard calls for the reduction of GHG emissions from new vehicles of 22% by 2012 and 30% by 2016.
Executive Order 2006-13 (2006) directed the ADEQ to adopt and implement the Clean Car Program (i.e., California's LEV II Program and CO2 standards) described on p.68 of its 2006 climate action plan.
- http://azgovernor.gov/dms/upload/HB2017VetoLetter.pdf
- http://www.azdeq.gov/function/news/2008/download/0110.pdf
- http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/8400/
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Status: Proposed
Details: HB 2776 (introduced February 2008) would provide conditional authority to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules regarding low carbon fuel standards. The rulemaking authority would become effective if neither Congress nor the Legislature enacted a national or state low carbon fuel standard that requires a reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from motor fuels by December 31, 2011.