Sacramento adopted the Climate Action & Adaptation Plan (CAAP) in 2024, formally targeting carbon-zero by 2045 and committing the city to greenhouse-gas reductions, electrification, and equity-focused climate adaptation across all departments and capital projects.
The 2024 CAAP sets enforceable greenhouse-gas budgets aligned with state SB 32 and AB 1279 trajectories. Sacramento partners with SMUD, the city's public-power utility, to decarbonize the grid by 2030, and uses CAAP-driven thresholds in CEQA review. New municipal buildings must be all-electric, and the plan layers extreme-heat, wildfire-smoke, and flood adaptation into General Plan updates. Departments report annual progress to City Council, and CAAP metrics inform building-code reach amendments under Title 15.
CAAP itself is a policy framework rather than a code citation, but reach-code violations under Title 15 trigger building-permit denial, stop-work orders, and project-specific mitigation conditions.
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