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1. Introduction San Leandro 2021 Climate Action Plan Page 17 − Reduce emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050  Identifies and analyzes the emissions resulting from specific actions or categories of actions anticipated within the geographic area.  Specifies strategies or a group of strategies, including performance standards that, if implemented on a project-by-project basis, substantial evidence demonstrates they would collectively achieve the specified emissions level.  Establishes a mechanism to monitor the Plan’s progress toward achieving specific levels and to require amendment if the plan is not achieving those levels.  Includes an environmental review of the CAP in the form of an Addendum to the General Plan Environmental Impact Report. Bay Area Air Quality Management District The Bay Area Quality Management District (BAAQMD) is the air district with jurisdiction over San Leandro and is responsible for planning air quality management within the Bay Area. Released in 2017, the latest update to BAAQMD’s Clean Air Plan provides a regional strategy to protect public health and the climate via continued progress toward all State and federal air quality standards, and to eliminate health risk disparities from exposure to air pollution among Bay Area communities. The Clean Air Plan defines a vision for transitioning the region to the post-carbon economy needed to achieve ambitious GHG reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 and provides a regional climate protection strategy that will put the Bay Area on a pathway to achieve those GHG reduction targets. The 2017 Plan includes a wide range of control measures designed to decrease emissions of the air pollutants that are most harmful to Bay Area residents, such as particulate matter, ozone, and toxic air contaminants; to reduce emissions of methane and other GHGs that are potent climate pollutants in the near-term; and to decrease emissions of carbon dioxide by reducing fossil fuel combustion. BAAQMD’s Climate Protection Planning Program is a comprehensive planning effort to reduce the air district’s GHG emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. In 2018, the Climate Protection Grant Program awarded $4.5 million to 17 projects at 15 regional public agencies in two programs areas: reducing GHGs from existing and fostering innovative strategies to long-term GHG reduction. Grants were awarded to Alameda County Waste Management Authority and East Bay Clean Energy, among others. City General Plan San Leandro adopted a comprehensive update to its General Plan in 2017. The General Plan is a comprehensive blueprint that lays out the community’s approach to growth and development activities through the year 2035. The General Plan also serves as a framework for the CAP, 61