Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Colorado's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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CPRG Implementation Grant: Colorado Decarbonization Accelerator

The State of Colorado Energy Office received over $129 million in EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Program Implementation Funds to support implementation of the following emissions reduction measures:

- Methane Emissions Monitoring and Reduction: Will create a methane emissions detection and response program, support methane emissions reduction pilot projects, and identify regulatory mechanisms to further reduce methane emissions from landfills and coal mines.
- Large Building Decarbonization: Will offer subawards to fund projects for buildings covered by the state Benchmarking and Building Performance standards program that reduce emissions before or beyond regulatory requirements.
- Local Government Climate Action Accelerator: Will offer subawards to local governments for measures that have significant GHG emissions reduction potential and are best-suited for local government implementation. Subawards will provide funding for technical assistance to support policy adoption, as well as equity-focused incentive funding for project implementation.

SB 21-260: Sustainability Of The Transportation System

Creates new sources of dedicated funding and new state enterprises to enable the planning, funding, development, construction, maintenance, supervision and regulation of a sustainable transportation system by preserving, improving and expanding existing transportation infrastructure, developing the modern infrastructure needed to support the widespread adoption of electric motor vehicles, and mitigating adverse environmental and health impacts of transportation system use.

This enterprise is created within the Colorado Department of Transportation to support public transit electrification planning efforts, facility upgrades, fleet motor vehicle replacement, as well as construction and development of electric motor vehicle charging and fueling infrastructure. The bill allows the enterprise to impose a clean transit retail delivery fee to fund its operations, and to issue grants, loans or rebates to support electrification of public transit.

Clean Transit Enterprise

The measures under this initiative include a) providing free home retrofits and upgrade services for low-income and disadvantaged populations, b) offering free energy advising to residential, multifamily, and commercial building owners, c) providing rebates and incentives to accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency and electrification, and d) establishing a building policy collaborative to advance ambitious building policies at the local level.

Decarbonize Denver Regional Council of Governments: A Zero-Emission Building Initiative

HB24-1173, Electric Vehicle Charging System Permits

The bill creates expedited processes for local government permitting of electric vehicle (EV) charging systems. The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) must develop a model code for EV charging permits that applies to land use and zoning permitting processes and publish it by
March 31, 2025. Then, counties with a population of at least 20,000 and municipalities must adopt an ordinance or resolution to either implement relevant standards and a permitting process or affirm that they will not update their standards and permitting processes by
December 31, 2025. The CEO must provide technical assistance to these local governments using Electric Vehicle Grant Funds, as necessary, and affected local governments must submit compliance reports to the CEO.

SB24-214: Implement State Climate Goals

SB24-214 does the following: 
- Establishes the Office of Sustainability within the Department of Personnel to work with state agencies and higher education institutions to implement and track progress toward meeting state climate goals, implementing sustainable procurement methods, installing energy-efficient equipment, meeting building performance standards, planning and constructing EV charging infrastructure, and reviewing and coordinating state agencies’ applications for elective pay funding available under the IRA.
- Creates a state agency sustainability revolving fund and the Inflation Reduction Act elective pay cash fund to allow state agencies to take advantage of the clean energy tax credit direct pay provision in the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Requires state projects and projects receiving state grant funding to use EPA Energy Star certified equipment.
-  Directs the Colorado Energy Office, on or before August 1, 2024, to commence a study to explore how to accelerate adoption of heat pump technology in Colorado through a technical standard for applicable air conditioners. The CEO is required to provide to the general assembly a progress report, interim results and legislative recommendations, and, on or before June 1, 2025, a final study and final legislative recommendations.