Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Santa Cruz seeks to develop a new Climate and Energy Action Plan 2030 (the Plan) with a vision that is transformative, engaging and capable of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier in an equitable manner. The Plan and its vision will center around key community-driven principles. The Plan will be presented in a format that is accessible, visually appealing, easy to understand, and easily translated to a variety of media and for different audiences. The technical components of the Plan will be developed as technical memoranda that will serve as appendices to the main Plan. The Plan will be informed by a robust and multimodal community engagement process, designed to engage as many distinct constituencies as feasible. The Plan will require coordination with an external equity consultant, graphic designer, translators, the City’s Communications Manager, the media and other stakeholders. The Climate and Energy Action Plan 2030 will also utilize, align with, and conform to the following commitments: ● Relevant State Legislation and Executive Orders ● The City’s Climate Suit against 29 fossil fuel companies ● Global Covenant of Mayors ● Paris Climate Agreement and City’s Resolution in Support of Paris Climate Agreement ● The City’s Climate Emergency Resolution ● The City’s Health in All Policies ordinance and city council policy ● The City’s Green New Deal Resolution ● The City’s Interim Recovery Plan
