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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Biannual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Implementation Report: December 2022

This report recounts the progress of the specific policy and program implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap, and identifies new opportunities for action since the latest biannual update released in June 2022 and available here. This report covers areas of significant new work since the June report, but does not provide a comprehensive look at every climate-related effort across the state.

Greenhouse Gas Intensity Verification Rule

Colorado adopted first-of-its-kind measures to verify greenhouse gas emissions from certain oil and gas sites. The new rule defines how certain oil and gas facilities must calculate their greenhouse gas intensity, monitor operations to ensure compliance with intensity standards, and keep records to accurately account for emissions from their operations. The term “intensity” refers to the ratio of a facility’s amount of greenhouse gas emissions over the amount of oil and gas it produces.

The program includes two main parts: the new verification rule and greenhouse gas intensity standards. The new verification rule will ensure facilities adhere to the greenhouse gas intensity standards adopted in 2021. The standards become more protective over time in accordance with the 2021 Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap, which calls for the oil and gas industry to achieve a 36% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2025 and a 60% reduction by 2030.

Transit Zero Emission Vehicle Roadmap

The Transit Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Roadmap is a comprehensive and adaptable guide for transit agencies, key stakeholders, and the State of Colorado to implement the zero emission transit strategies contained within the Colorado Electric Vehicle Plan (2020 EV Plan) and bring clean transit options to all Coloradans. The Transit ZEV
Roadmap provides a transit electrification strategy for the State of Colorado to stage, support, and incentivize transit agencies to transition toward technologies that
achieve the greatest fuel economy, maximize greenhouse gas (GHG) and other emissions benefits, and set the stage for a zero-emission future.

Colorado Electric Vehicle Plan 2020

The state readopts the goals from the 2018 EV plan: 940,000 zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on the road and 500 electric transit vehicles by 2030, and lays out a strategy for building out Colorado’s electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging infrastructure and for leading by example through accelerating purchase of EVs for agency fleets. Will increase the number of state agencies that offer workplace charging from five in January 2020 to 10 by the end of FY 2022 and prioritize purchase of ZEVs for light-duty applications, increasing the number of ZEVs in operation or on order from at least 200 by end of 2020 to 375 by January 2022, with a goal of electrifying all vehicles that have appropriate use cases by 2030.

In an effort to advance the state goal and to proactively address ZEV workforce development needs, CDOT developed the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Workforce Development Grant to support workforce training and development focused on ZEVs, ZEV infrastructure, and ZEV-related commercial technologies.

The purpose of this grant is to develop the skills and talent necessary to meet the changing demands of the transportation electrification sector. This grant addresses multiple challenges that Colorado and the wider mobility and electrification industry are facing: talent shortages, gap in new skillsets, and the growing need for training due to technology advances.

Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Workforce Development Grants

The 2020 EV Plan set an interim target of at least 1,000 transit ZEVs by 2030, which includes rubber-tired, conventionally-fueled transit buses, cutaways, vans, minivans, and automobiles.