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):
- Climate Action Plan Introduction (this page)
- County Operations Climate Action Plan
- Community GHG Inventory
- Community Climate Action Plan
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Climate Action Plan Introduction - Table of Contents
- Land Acknowledgement
- Introduction from the Washoe County Chair, Commissioner Alexis Hill
- Washoe County's Mission, Vision and Guiding Principals
- Home Means Nevada: Washoe County's Quality of Life, Climate Impacts and Need for Action
- The purpose of this Climate Action Plan (CAP)
- Benefits of Climate Action
- Vision for 2050
- Washoe County: place and people
- The County’s role in creating and implementing the CAP
- The Community’s role in creating and implementing the CAP
- Navigating the Four Sections of the CAP