Adopt revised climate goals and targets
On Track: Anticipated adoption scheduled for August 2021
Adopt revised climate goals and targets
On Track: Anticipated adoption scheduled for August 2021
The city has proposed a new framework for climate action which includes updates climate goals and targets and elevating the importance of systems-change approaches to climate work. The current approach focuses on five major action areas: energy, ecosystems, circular economy, land use, and financial systems. All action areas are expected to focus on mitigation and adaptation with the core design principle of equity, in short- and long-term planning efforts.
Continue the design and roll-out of the Updated Climate Action Plan including:
Continue progress toward the community’s greenhouse gas reduction goals including:
Advocate for 2021 state legislative action on priority bills such as removal of the 120% limit on distributed solar, beneficial electrification in buildings and mobility, low-emission vehicles, energy storage, energy choice, building energy use, single-use disposables; and pesticide preemption rules; and continue advocacy efforts at state regulatory agencies such as the Public Utilities Commission, Air Quality Control Commission and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.