Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap

In January 2021, Colorado released its Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. The GHG Roadmap represents the most action-oriented, ambitious and substantive planning process Colorado has ever undertaken on climate leadership, pollution reduction and clean energy transition. It lays out an achievable pathway to meet the state’s science-based climate targets of 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050 from 2005 levels that were part of House Bill 19-1261 Climate Action Plan to Reduce Pollution.

The GHG Roadmap shows Colorado’s largest sources of GHG emissions are transportation, electricity generation, oil and gas development and fuel use in homes, business and industrial applications. Findings show that meeting the 2025 and 2030 goals is achievable with existing cost-effective technologies, but progressing toward these goals will require additional policies beyond the actions the state has taken already. 

Key Steps to Achieving 2030 Targets:

- Continue swift transition away from coal to renewable electricity
- Make deep reductions in methane pollution from oil and gas development
- Accelerate the shift to electric cars, trucks and buses
- Make changes to transportation planning and investment and land use planning to encourage alternatives to driving
- Increase building efficiency and electrification
- Reduce methane waste from landfills, waste water and other sources

As part of the near-term actions in its Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap, Colorado identified the development & utilization of a Task Force as an important step to better understand the role that carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) can play in meeting the state’s emissions targets. The evaluation will include an inventory of existing initiatives and recent publications that analyze or identify carbon capture, transport, utilization, and storage opportunities in Colorado

Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap

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