Products / Project record
| Property | Value |
| Name | Colorado Climate Action Plan |
| Release Year | 2007 |
| Primary Author | |
| Description | The Colorado Climate Action Plan... sets out measures that we in our state can adopt to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020, and makes a shared commitment with other states and nations to even deeper emissions cuts by 2050. For Colorado, global warming will mean warmer summers and less winter snowpack. The ski season will be weeks shorter. Forest fires will be more common and more intense. Water quality could decline, and the demand for both agricultural and municipal water will increase even as water supplies dwindle. This plan has been developed over several months, in a collaborative process, including business and community leaders, conservationists, scientists and concerned citizens. It pushes energy efficiency measures that will reduce demand for electrical energy and lower utility bills; builds on the state’s recently expanded Renewable Portfolio Standard and looks for ways to develop our renewable energy supplies even further; includes an ambitious goal for making cars and trucks run more cleanly and efficiently while saving consumers money at the pump; and provides an exciting new opportunity for rural Colorado by creating economic incentives for major utilities and industries to pay farmers and ranchers to sequester more carbon in the soil. The plan includes a strong plea, voiced also by the bipartisan Western Governors’ Association, for an accelerated round of federal investments to deploy clean coal technologies. Insulating homes and buildings, establishing wind farms, building solar arrays, and constructing clean coal power plants will demand thousands of trained workers. Stepping up energy conservation and developing new sources of clean, renewable energy will grow the New Energy Economy in Colorado. These benefits will radiate across the state, from coal-mining areas in western Colorado to farms in eastern Colorado, and from Fort Collins to Pueblo, where urban areas have an enormous need for efficiency retrofitting in homes and buildings. |
| Sectors | |
| Source | State Government |
| Keywords | Climate Change, Adaptation, Conservation, Industry, Rural, Urban, Vulnerabilities, Policy Recommendations |
| Homepage | http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/climate/climateactionplan.html |
