Colorado Climate Action Plan

A Strategy To Address Global Warming

Colorado created a Climate Action Plan in 2007 under the leadership of then Governor Bill Ritter. The plan is considered a living document, and a first installment of what could become further refinements as additional initiatives are evaluated and new technologies unfold.

The Climate Action Plan notes that Colorado’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 were 35 percent higher than in 1990 and, under a business-as-usual scenario, are projected to grow to 81 percent above 1990 levels by the year 2020. Our goal is to slow and then reverse this trend.