Sustainability

Washoe County Climate Action Plan - Introduction - DRAFT

Draft, November 2024

Washoe County is committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to Net-Zero by 2050. This Climate Action Plan (CAP) provides GHG emissions inventories for County Operations and Community-Wide, as well as 121 recommended actions to reduce emissions in our buildings, transportation, land-use, supply chain and waste sectors to guide our County and Community toward meeting our Net-Zero goals. This CAP is presented in the following sections:

This Introduction is the first of four total sections of the Climate Action Plan (CAP):

To provide feedback on this Introduction or any part of the Washoe County CAP document, use this feedback form.

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Climate Action Plan Introduction - Table of Contents
  1. Land Acknowledgement
  2. Introduction from the Washoe County Chair, Commissioner Alexis Hill
  3. Washoe County's Mission, Vision and Guiding Principals
  4. Home Means Nevada: Washoe County's Quality of Life, Climate Impacts and Need for Action
  5. The purpose of this Climate Action Plan (CAP)
  6. Benefits of Climate Action
  7. Vision for 2050
  8. Washoe County: place and people
  9. The County’s role in creating and implementing the CAP
  10. The Community’s role in creating and implementing the CAP
  11. Navigating the Four Sections of the CAP 
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