The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requires, on or before July 1, 2025, the State Air Resources Board to develop and adopt regulations to require a reporting entity to, among other things, annually disclose all of the reporting entity's scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions, as defined. Existing law also states the intent of the Legislature for all state agencies, as defined, to aim to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from their operations, including scope 1 and scope 2 emissions, no later than January 1, 2035, or as soon as feasible thereafter. Existing law requires the Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, in making progress toward the above-described goal, to, among other things, publish on its internet website or other publicly available location an inventory of the greenhouse gas emissions of state agencies for the prior calendar year, as specified.
Existing law, the Buy Clean California Act, requires the Department of General Services, by January 1, 2022, to establish and publish in the State Contracting Manual, in a department management memorandum, or on the department's internet website a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as defined, in accordance with specified requirements. By January 1, 2025, and every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the department to review the maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as provided.
This bill, the California Procurement Climate Information Act, would require the department, beginning January 1, 2027, to require a large contractor and significant contractor, as defined, to report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risk, as specified. The bill would require the report to include, for large contractors, an annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, scope 3 emissions, and climate-related financial risk, as specified, and for significant contractors, an annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions, as specified.