Strategies
These strategies consist of associated targets, measures, quantified actions, and supporting qualitative actions that the City can use to avoid or reduce future GHG emissions. The dashboard is categorized by five strategies which are: Decarbonization of the Built Environment, Access to Clean and Renewable Energy, Mobility and Land Use, Circular Economy and Clean Communities, Resilient Infrastructure and Healthy Ecosystems, and Emerging Climate Actions.
Each strategy is described and defined under its own strategy page and also includes an abbreviation before the title that is used in identifying the strategy. Underneath the strategy pages, you will also find the associated measures.
Measures
Each measure is a target that has quantifiable measures that include actions, policies, or programs that the City will take to achieve the goals of the Climate Action Plan. Each measure is ranked on feasibility which include: stakeholder acceptability, technical feasibility, ease of implementation, financial viability, and mainstreaming potential. Furthermore, the measures are also ranked on the potential for equitable implementation of actions which include: community benefits & burdens, community empowerment, and addresses historical disparity.
Feasibility
Stakeholder acceptability: Would stakeholders who are impacted (ex: local residents, business owners, or others) support the measure?
Technical feasibility: Will necessary design implementation, and maintenance support be available for the option?
Ease of implementation: Can it be implemented at the local government level, or does it depend upon state, county or national support?
Financial viability: Is it a financially realistic option? Does the City have funding or potential access to funding to cover the costs?
Mainstreaming potential: Could it be integrated with existing City government planning and policy development?
Equitable Implementation
Community benefits & burdens: Can it be implemented in a way that distributes benefits and burdens equitably?
Community empowerment: Can it be implemented in a way to increase community capacity or level of engagement?
Addresses historical disparity: Can it address historical disparities in Communities of Concern (ex: lack of sidewalks or low air quality)?
Feasibility and Equitable Implementation are ranked on a scale of 1-3 which signify the level of feasibility or the potential of a measure to positively impact Communities of Concern. These rankings are shown in the form of three circles underneath the factor. 1 blue circle is low feasibility, 2 blue circles are medium feasibility, and 3 blue circles are high feasibility.
Actions
Particular actions are found underneath measures. You can click on any strategy to start navigating there.
For example: BE. Decarbonization of the Built Environment → BE-1.1 Decarbonize Existing Buildings → BE-1. 1SA-1.
The action in this case is BE-1. 1SA-1.
When reading an action, there will be a progress bar that shows whether the project is not started, in planning, in progress, being implemented, completed, or ongoing. The official description of the action that comes from the Climate Action Plan (CAP) will also be given. Additional information about how the action would help decrease the City’s greenhouse gas emissions will also be outlined.
Under each action, the lead department will be named with the associated measure.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Established in 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are shared global commitments to achieve a transformational vision of the year 2030. They were created after years of public consultation and civic engagement and focus on protecting and uplifting the poorest and most vulnerable members of society while encouraging sustainable development. The City is committed to environmental justice, sustainability, and social equity, and the SDGs are an added layer of international accountability that aligns with our CAP goals.
Within the dashboard, each Action will be related to a number of SDGs that you can view on the bottom right, as shown in the image below. The preceding number identifies a specific SDG.
The SDGs are 17 calls for action to build a better future for all people:
- Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
- Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
*Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.