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Environmental Checklist Greenhouse Gas Emissions General Plan Consistency Checklist 45 8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Significant Impact Less than Significant or Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated No Impact Analyzed in the Prior EIR Would the project: a. Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment? □ ■ □ ■ b. Conflict with an applicable plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases? □ ■ □ ■ Analysis in the General Plan EIR Impacts to greenhouse gas emissions were analyzed in Section 4.6 of the General Plan EIR. Impacts from the generation of greenhouse gas emissions were determined to be less than significant with no mitigation measures required. Impacts regarding the consistency with applicable plans were determined to be significant and unavoidable with no feasible mitigation measures available (City of San Leandro 2016b). The following describes the analysis included in the General Plan EIR and provides a streamlined review to determine whether there would be project-specific impacts that are either 1) peculiar to the project or the parcel on which the project is located; 2) were not previously analyzed in the General Plan EIR as significant effects; 3) are potentially significant off-site impacts and cumulative impacts that were not previously discussed in the General Plan EIR; or 4) are now determined to have a more severe impact than discussed in the General Plan EIR due to substantial new information. Threshold The majority of individual projects do not generate sufficient GHG emissions to influence climate change directly, by themselves. However, physical changes caused by a project can contribute incrementally to significant cumulative effects, even if individual changes resulting from a project are limited. The issue of climate change typically involves an analysis of whether a project’s contribution towards an impact would be cumulatively considerable. “Cumulatively considerable” means that the incremental effects of an individual project are significant, when viewed in connection with the effects of past projects, other current projects, and probable future projects (CEQA Guidelines, Section 15064[h][1]). In late 2015, the California Supreme Court’s Newhall Ranch decision confirmed that there are multiple potential pathways for evaluating GHG emissions consistent with CEQA, depending on the circumstances of a given project (Center for Biological Diversity v. Department of Fish and Wildlife