Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAP)

The City of Oxnard is seeking a consultant team to develop a comprehensive Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAP) that will address the community's climate challenges and opportunities. The plan should include strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving resilience to climate hazards, and creating policies to address disadvantaged communities. The selected vendor, ESA, will work with City staff, community members, and regional agencies to develop the plan. The evaluation criteria for selecting the vendor included understanding of the required scope of services, expertise and ability, qualifications and experience, personnel to be assigned, quality and type of service proposed, creativity and innovation, results of reference checks, and costs associated with the proposal. • The plan should clearly explain the community's climate challenges and opportunities • The plan should serve as a mechanism to develop the City's sustainability initiatives, strategies, and plans • The plan should demonstrate how the City will adapt and improve its resilience to current and future climate hazards • The plan should create policies to address disadvantaged communities within the City • The plan should establish a set of cohesive sustainability strategies, implementation measures, and metrics for measuring progress and success