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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Executive Order D 2022 016, Concerning the Greening of State Government

Governor Polis signed Executive Order No. D 2022-016 to ensure future fleet purchases of all light-duty vehicles are EVs by default, as well as medium- and heavy-duty vehicles insofar as they are available in the market.
Executive Order amending and restating Executive Order D 2019 016 to establish new goals to reflect the State’s continued commitment to efficient and sustainable government operations and to meet and surpass the State’s goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving indoor air quality, and reducing local pollution across Colorado.
Executive Order D 2019 016, as well as all previous Executive Orders relating to
greening government and sustainability, including D 2015 013 and D 2018 026, are hereby amended and restated by this Executive Order. This Executive Order shall remain in effect unless modified by a future Executive Order of the Governor.

The Clean Air Program (CAP) is a competitive grant program administered by CEO, with a total funding amount not to exceed $25 million over the program’s six-year duration, sunsetting June 30, 2028.

CAP will provide grants for energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy, electrification projects, methane capture projects, sustainable aviation fuel, use of low carbon hydrogen, and carbon capture at industrial facilities to achieve additional emission reductions beyond those required by regulation.

Clean Air Program (CAP) Grants

Colorado 2023 Greenhouse Gas Inventory Update

The purpose of Colorado’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report is to provide the most complete, accurate, precise, consistent, and comparable picture of emissions. The report covers emissions activities within the state back to 2005. 

The science of climate change is rich in scope and complexity — and continues improving. Colorado uses the best available data and evaluation methods each time updates the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report. Numbers and trends may change from one inventory report to the next. This is a normal part of how science works and helps ensure information is becoming more accurate over time.

Colorado Climate Preparedness Roadmap

Colorado released the first Climate Preparedness Roadmap, which focuses on ways to better understand, prepare for, and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and outlines actions the administration can take to protect Colorado’s future. The state also concurrently continues its nation-leading efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Climate Preparedness Roadmap was produced by the newly formed Governor’s Office of Climate Preparedness and Disaster Recovery through the passage of SB22-206, sponsored by Senate President Steve Fenberg and Representative Judy Amabile.

SB21-249, Keep Colorado Wild Annual Pass

The act creates an optional discounted parks and public lands access pass that is purchased at the time a motor vehicle is registered, and, in connection therewith, using the pass fees to finance a number of goals of the division of parks and wildlife including conservation, wildlife adaptation and resilience, and equity in the outdoors.

Executive Order D 2022 016 directs Agencies and/or Departments to:

- Purchase battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in cases where BEVs meet the Agency’s and/or Department’s operational needs and infrastructure is in place or is planned to be in place prior to vehicles arriving. Agencies and/or Departments may continue to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in cases where PHEVs better match the operational needs or charging infrastructure is planned for installation after arrival of the vehicles.
- Ensure that EVs (BEVs and PHEVs) are the default vehicle type for all light-duty vehicles for future vehicle purchases, and if an electric model is available to the State that is the same vehicle type approved for replacement, DPA, with input from CEO, shall select the EV. In cases where an Agency and/or Department believes that the selected EV will not meet the operational need, Agencies and/or Departments may request reconsideration of the selection by DPA. DPA should consider deferring purchases for such vehicles into future years where more mission appropriate EVs may be available. Agencies and/or Departments may appeal DPA’s decision for final determination by the Governor.