In evaluating interim targets for 2030, the City compared its emissions forecasts against different target options to understand the scale of reductions needed from the CECAP actions, and then selected an interim target that balances the City’s ambition with the realities of Dallas’ relatively high level of emissions in its base year. A common approach used by cities is to set interim targets based on a straight-line trajectory from their base year to their longterm goal. Figure 16 shows this trajectory from the 2015 emissions base year to carbon neutrality by 2050. In Dallas, this would translate to a 43% reduction in total emissions below 2015 levels by 2030.

• Interim Target Baseline Year: 2015