The plan and its documents

In the plan

Chapter links open the PDF at that page. Sector chapters also have their own pages here.

1. Message from Mayor Daniel Lurie1
2. Message from Director Tyrone Jue2
3. Executive Summary3
4. Introduction10
   1. Climate Action10
   2. Community Engagement14
   3. Racial and Social Equity Review18
5. Toward a Climate-Safe Future: Counting and Cutting Emissions19
   1. Emissions Targets19
   2. Current Emissions20
   3. Reducing Emissions: State, Regional, and Local Approaches23
   4. Adding Up Actions: Modeling San Francisco's Emissions Reductions24
   5. Getting to Net-Zero: Carbon Dioxide Removal26
   6. Measuring Lifecycle Impact: Consumption-based Emissions29
6. Innovation: Bright Ideas for Climate Solutions32
7. Taking Action Across Sectors36
   1. Energy Supply36
   2. Building Operations44
   3. Transportation52
   4. Housing and Land Use63
   5. Circular Economy70
   6. Healthy Ecosystems80
   7. Water Supply91
8. Funding and Financing Climate Action99
9. Next Steps: Governance to Deliver Climate Action103
10. City Department Names and Abbreviations105
11. Endnotes106

Appendices

• Appendix A: Public Comments on the Draft Plan and Responses

  Every public comment received on the 2025 draft, with the responding department's answer. About a thousand entries by source and sector.

  PDF · 188 pages · 1.2 MB · on this site

• Appendix B: Summary of Online Survey Results

  The 2025 survey's 150 responses, priorities and concerns, free-text themes, and respondent demographics.

  PDF · 6 pages · 556 KB · on this site

• Appendix C: Racial and Social Equity Review and Recommendations

  The equity review of every draft strategy, with impacts, recommendations, and suggested edits. Summarized on each strategy on this site.

  PDF · 18 pages · 265 KB · on this site

• Appendix D: Emission Model

  Arup and Cascadia's wedge-analysis memo, the source of the scenarios on this site.

  PDF · 7 pages · 796 KB · on this site

Previous plan and reporting

• San Francisco Climate Action Plan 2021

  The previous plan, which this one updates. Its 34 strategies and 174 actions are archived on the progress page.

  PDF · 19 MB · July 2021 · on this site

• Climate Action Plan Progress Report, January 2022 to December 2023

  The City's biennial report on the 2021 plan, including the final status of all its actions and the key performance indicators.

  PDF · 30 pages · 737 KB · June 2024 · on this site

Looking for the numbers rather than the documents? See Data downloads.