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.

colorado

GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

total

2-Year Progress Report on Strategic Plan for Climate-Smart Natural and Working Lands

The Colorado Natural and Working Lands Agency Taskforce published a 2-Year Progress Report in April 2026. The report summarizes accomplishments and ongoing priorities through 2028 for implementing Colorado’s Strategic Plan for Climate-Smart Natural and Working Lands. Recognized within the Colorado Carbon Management Roadmap, this Strategy is Colorado’s primary goal-setting mechanism for statewide biogenic carbon management. 

Accomplishments, ongoing work, and priorities through 2028 are summarized within Cross-Cutting Priorities and the five primary land cover types addressed in the original plan: Croplands and Rangelands, Grasslands and Shrublands, Forests, Urban Green Space, and Wetlands and Riparian Areas. 

East Colfax Selected for Colorado's First Environmental Equity and Cumulative Impact Analysis

Colorado selected the East Colfax neighborhood of Aurora for the state's first Environmental Equity and Cumulative Impact Analysis. The analysis will examine how overlapping environmental factors affect health and quality of life, help identify communities most affected by environmental stressors, contribute to a state framework for measuring cumulative impacts, and inform future permitting, planning, and public health decisions.

HB26-1289 - Modification of Certain Tax Expenditures

For ZEV tax credits:
- Increases the innovative motor vehicle tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 for certain vehicles sold or leased during the 2027 income tax year, and from $500 to $1,000 for certain vehicles sold or leased during the 2028 income tax year, and provides that certain vehicles with an manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) below $40,000 that are sold or leased on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2029, are eligible for the additional tax credit.

For sustainable aviation fuel (SAF):
- Repeals the SAF production facility tax credit, effective January 1, 2027;
- Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel purchase income tax credit for income tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and before December 31, 2032, where the amount of the credit is initially $1.50, increased by $.01 for each whole percentage of carbon intensity reduction in excess of 50%, but no greater than 100%, per gallon of SAF purchased for use in the state by the taxpayer, and the CEO may adjust that amount annually;
- Beginning January 1, 2028, the CEO may allow an additional credit of 50 cents for each gallon of SAF produced in the state that a qualified taxpayer purchased for use in the state during the income tax year, except as provided by the cap and reservation system, the total amount of credits issued cannot exceed $3 million per tax year, taxpayers must apply to the CEO for a tax credit certificate and CEO verifies eligibility and reports approved credits to the department of revenue, and the credit is refundable but may not be carried forward.


Senate Bill 24-218: Modernize Energy Distribution Systems

The act requires the Office of Future of Work to create a grant program, in coordination with the Colorado Energy Office, for lineworker apprenticeship programs. The Office of Future of Work must create a competitive application process and select apprenticeship programs that meet certain training and matching requirements. On July 1, 2024, the state treasurer must transfer $800,000 from the general fund to the Colorado lineworker apprenticeship grant program cash fund, which is created in the act, for the purposes of the grant program.

Lineworker Apprenticeship Grants are competitive awards that assist existing Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the Transmission or Distribution Lineworker Trades, absorb costs associated with career training, and help more people obtain and retain employment in the sector. 

Lineworker Apprenticeship Grants 

just_transition

- Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel purchase income tax credit for income tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and before December 31, 2032, where the amount of the credit is initially $1.50, increased by $.01 for each whole percentage of carbon intensity reduction in excess of 50%, but no greater than 100%, per gallon of SAF purchased for use in the state by the taxpayer, and the CEO may adjust that amount annually;
- Beginning January 1, 2028, the CEO may allow an additional credit of 50 cents for each gallon of SAF produced in the state that a qualified taxpayer purchased for use in the state during the income tax year, except as provided by the cap and reservation system, the total amount of credits issued cannot exceed $3 million per tax year, taxpayers must apply to the CEO for a tax credit certificate and CEO verifies eligibility and reports approved credits to the department of revenue, and the credit is refundable but may not be carried forward.