US States Climate Action Planning

Our planning and engagement processes with US states have included comprehensive climate action planning initiatives in all regions of the country chartered by governors through Executive Orders and public law. They involved collaboration by hundreds of stakeholders from civil society, business, and government supported by project formation, evaluative facilitation, and technical assistance by CCS. The end results of these decision processes have included measurement of greenhouse gases and other important baselines in all economic sectors, and formal stakeholder-based agreements on the design, analysis, and implementation of policies and measures in all sectors that achieve climate, economic, and energy goals at the same time. CCS has provided similar support for local governments and regions in the US and used this template for capacity building and low carbon development outside the US.

Our state projects include:

• Arkansas Governor’s Commission on Global Warming

• Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group Climate Change Action Plan

• Colorado Climate Change Project

• Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan

• Kansas Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections 1990-2025

• Kentucky Climate Action Plan Council

• Maryland Commission on Climate Change Climate Action Plan

• Michigan Climate Mitigation Action Council Climate Action Plan

• Minnesota Climate Strategies and Economic Opportunities Project

• Montana Climate Change Action Plan

• New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group Final Report

• New York State Climate Action Council Climate Action Plan

• North Carolina Climate Action Plan Advisory Group

• Pennsylvania Climate Change Action Plan

• South Carolina Climate, Energy, and Commerce Committee

• Vermont Plenary Group Recommendations to the Governor’s Commission on Climate Change

• Washington State: A Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gases