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2008 Climate Action Team (CAT)

Implementing the Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change

In 2007, the Climate Advisory Team elevated Washington’s work on climate change to a new level by collectively looking across the breadth of issues and articulating a broad response to the challenge of climate change (Read the report).

In 2008, the Climate Action Team will continue to play a leadership role in advising the State as Washington continues to lead the way in addressing climate change.

The primary purpose of the 2008 CAT work will be to transform the comprehensive recommendations developed in 2007 into a small number of focused, refined, and effective set of actions that Governor Gregoire and the Washington Legislature can implement in order to take the critical next steps to address climate change.

Support by the Washington State Legislature in the 2008 Session indicates that the will and determination exists to continue making significant and meaningful progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in creating a new, lower carbon economy in Washington. Two significant pieces of legislation passed that will further progress in meeting Washington’s Climate Change Challenge:

• ESSHB 2815 - Creating a framework to reduce GHG emissions in Washington State
• ESSB 6580 - Addressing the impacts of climate change through the growth management act (partial veto of SB6580)