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(a) The Department of the Environment, utilizing the expertise of relevant City Departments and Agencies, shall research and, as appropriate, recommend legislation to the Board of Supervisors, concerning whether and how to develop or utilize available market-based compliance mechanisms, such as greenhouse gas emissions exchanges, banking, credits, and other similar transactions governed by rules and protocols established by the City, CARB or other recognized governmental or non-profit entity as credit toward City greenhouse gas emission reductions.
(b) The Department of the Environment shall provide technical assistance, and coordinate City applications for, any approved market-based mechanisms that the City intends to use in furtherance of achieving the San Francisco greenhouse gas emissions limit.
(Added by Ord. 81-08, File No. 071294, App. 5/13/2008)
(a) The City shall demonstrate its long-term commitment to reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and advancing racial and social equity by measuring and reporting emissions, tracking key performance indicators and equity metrics, and monitoring the City’s progress on meeting its climate action goals and commitments.
(b) The Department of the Environment shall, with the assistance from relevant City agencies:
(1) Measure and monitor Sector-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions, including municipal emissions, using best available global protocols for preparing Citywide Greenhouse Gas emission inventories.
(2) Measure production and consumption emissions using best available global methodologies for preparing consumption-based emission inventories.
(3) Evaluate Sector-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions against set targets, document production and consumption emissions, and produce a Greenhouse Gas emissions report.
(4) Establish a monitoring and reporting process for the implementation of the CAP that:
(A) Tracks key performance indicators and equity metrics for strategies to help monitor their progress and implementation;
(B) Reports progress against the Paris Agreement and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
(5) Request and receive data from City departments starting August of every year to support:
(A) The annual Greenhouse Gas emissions inventory. City departments may be asked to provide data on, but not limited to, the following: their energy use; types of fuels used for their operations; fuel volume; vehicle-miles travelled (if applicable) within their jurisdictions; and private sector Greenhouse Gas emission sources regulated by the department. Departments may also be requested to verify emission estimates and assumptions and review resulting reports;
(B) Monitoring and reporting of CAP implementation. City departments may be asked to provide data on key performance indicators and equity metrics related to adopted strategies and actions; and
(C) The development and delivery of annual municipal building energy benchmarking reports.
(6) Coordinate with other City agencies to monitor, track, and report on climate action progress to local, state, national, and global partners.
(7) Report its findings in a progress report to the public every two years.
(Added by Ord. 117-21, File No. 210563, App. 8/4/2021, Eff. 9/4/2021)
(Former Sec. 907 added by Ord. 81-08, File No. 071294, App. 5/13/2008; repealed by Ord. 117-21, File No. 210563, App. 8/4/2021, Eff. 9/4/2021)
(a) Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Ordinance. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of this Ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
(b) No Conflict With Federal Or State Law. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be interpreted or applied so as to create any requirement, power or duty in conflict with any Federal or State law. Any and all greenhouse gas reduction activities adopted and implemented under this Ordinance are intended to be complementary and nonduplicative of measures required or to be adopted by any State or Federal agency under State or Federal law. Nothing in this Ordinance shall relieve any person, entity, including any City Department or City Official of compliance with other applicable Federal, State, or local laws or regulations, including Federal or State air and water quality requirements, and other requirements for protecting public health or the environment.
(c) Undertaking For The General Welfare. In undertaking the implementation of this Ordinance, the City is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officer and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach proximately caused injury.
(Added by Ord. 81-08, File No. 071294, App. 5/13/2008)
New Ordinance NoticePublisher's Note: This section has been ADDED by new legislation (Ord. 237-20
, approved 11/25/2020, effective 12/26/2020). The text of the section will be included below when the enacting legislation is effective.
(a) The Department of Environment (“Department”) shall coordinate with the Department of Building Inspection in implementation of the All-Electric building requirement in Section 106A.1.17 of the Building Code, and shall provide technical assistance to support San Francisco residents, workers, and businesses through the transition to building electrification.
(b) The Department shall hold at least one public meeting annually to discuss the annual report from the Department of Building Inspection detailing the status of applications for permits to construct new Mixed-Fuel Buildings pursuant to an exception to Building Code Section 106A.1.17.
(c) Concurrent with implementation of the All-Electric building requirement, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will evaluate opportunities for the expansion of non-potable onsite water treatment systems, graywater heat recovery systems, and solar thermal water heating, and shall present findings and recommendations to the Board of Supervisors by no later than March 1, 2021 1
(Added by Ord. 237-20, File No. 200701, App. 11/25/2020, Eff. 12/26/2020)
CODIFICATION NOTE
1. So in Ord. 237-20.