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The transportation energy and climate challenge facing California and the nation is huge; the goals set to combat the challenge can seem daunting.  While there is finally emerging consensus that action is needed, the public dialog often seems trapped in the confines of old approaches and single solution pathways.  Even the conferences highlighting the needs and solutions are remarkably limited and tend to focus on a single element of the problem such as fuel(s) or vehicles. To achieve success in the years ahead requires a new way of addressing the challenge: comprehensive, integrated long-term solutions are necessary.

In mid-January 2009 CALSTART is planning a symposium in Sacramento aimed at providing this critical new perspective, and more than this, establishing a forum for identifying, stimulating and measuring real actions.  Linked closely with the California Secure Transportation Energy Partnership (CalSTEP) action plan and its efforts to push momentum for tangible steps to achieve California’s policy goals, Target 2030 will highlight the comprehensive solutions needed to achieve a secure transportation energy and climate future.  It will be the first conference to talk about solutions that are not only related to the vehicle and fuel, but also about land-use planning, transit, and sustainable mobility innovations. Target 2030 will integrate, unlike any other conference or symposium, the key areas of integrated policies and actions needed:

• More efficient vehicles;
• Greater fuel diversity and reduced carbon;
• Increased Transit use; and
• Energy efficient land use design to reduce VMT

The timing of this conference was selected for three reasons.  Approximately one week prior to the new administration taking the reins in Washington, DC, the conference will highlight California’s unique role in pursuing leading strategies to reduce transportation related greenhouse gases and oil dependence.  The conference will be a major opportunity to highlight the late 2008 CARB actions related to the AB 32 Scoping Plan.  It’ll be a major opportunity to educate policymakers and industry leaders on what has been done under the scoping plan, and to then highlight what additional actions may be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next two decades.  Lastly, January 2009 represents the beginning of the final and critically important last two years of the Schwarzenegger administration. 

CALSTART is designing Target 2030 to be an interactive symposium – a dialog – to give voice to divergent views but also to develop a course of action which integrates these four essential pieces of the sustainable transportation puzzle. California will be the focus, but diverse policy and solution experts from around North America and the world will be invited to participate.

The symposium will discuss actions as well as showcase real and integrated solutions: emerging clean vehicles and clean vehicle technologies and fuels, high-tech mobility systems, bio waste-to-energy, information technology for smart routing, new vehicle ownership and use models, new fuel production systems, transit innovations, non-vehicle mobility options, novel land-use and smart growth designs and more. 

The 1.5 day would event would target 250-300 quality policy, industry, academic and NGO attendees from California and other leading states. It would feature technology/vehicle/new concept exhibits, an evening networking reception, and a day of interactive policy and technical roundtables related to the focus areas discussing progress, gaps, new actions, and development of a plan of action. 

The Governor will be invited to use this event as a way to talk about his plans and aspirations to set California on a path to meet the AB 32 goals during the final two years of his administration.