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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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

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Colorado Home Energy Rebates Funding Allocation

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act established the Home Electrification and Home Efficiency Rebate Programs (together, the Home Energy Rebate Programs). The Home Energy Rebate Programs include $8.8 billion dollars in grant funding for states and Tribes to establish consumer home energy rebate programs, enabling communities to make homes more energy efficient, upgrade to electric appliances, and cut energy costs. Colorado was allocated around $140 million.

Colorado Land Use Policy & Greenhouse Gas Co-benefits Study

The Colorado Energy Office (CEO), in partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), released the Colorado Land Use Policy & Greenhouse Gas Co-benefits Study. The study assesses the impact of land use policies, analyzing a number of actions — many similar to those the state legislature adopted in 2024 — with the potential to substantially reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with new residential buildings and transportation between now and 2050. 

The study’s results will help inform the projected emissions reduction benefits of the land use strategies included in key state plans, such as the Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap update (Roadmap 2.0), as well as from implementing recent land use legislation at the state and local level.

The analysis considered three potential residential growth scenarios for most of the state’s metropolitan regions and several rural resort counties, where the State Demography Office anticipates 98% of Colorado’s population growth will occur by 2050. These models included a baseline scenario that represents local land use regulations in recent “business-as-usual” conditions and two policy scenarios that included packages of new land use policies.

Notably, the study found that policy changes to encourage more compact housing within cities would significantly impact the type and location of new housing in ways that reduce the GHG pollution associated with new development, both from buildings and transportation. The analysis concluded that a robust policy package with a focus on higher density development could reduce building emissions associated with new development by 30% and transportation emissions by nearly 15%.

Colorado Transportation Vision 2035

Transportation is key to a sustainable and vibrant future for all Coloradans. Efforts such as the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Pollution Reduction Roadmaps and the Greenhouse Gas Transportation Planning Standard have identified important state goals and actions that involve the transportation system, but the need for further transportation innovation remains. Outlining a systemic framework for expanded transportation choices is the purpose of this Colorado Transportation Vision 2035.

By 2035, Colorado aims to have a transportation system that:

- Improves air quality and improves public health by reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and regional air pollution
- Saves people money by improving access to more affordable and reliable transportation options
- Fixes our roads and invests in maintenance of the system
- Ensures safe travel, whether by driving, walking, biking, or taking transit
- Improve access to jobs and services for all Coloradans, including those who don't drive, or prefer not to drive, such as seniors, adolescents, people with disabilities, and people who can’t afford car ownership
- Reduces congestion on the roads and improves driver safety
- Expands opportunities for physical activity and access to public places and the great outdoors
- Addresses transportation inequities for low-income residents, and rural and urban communities alike.

Vision 2035 focuses on identifying goals and strategies that expand transportation options to meet Colorado's climate, affordability, safety, and equity goals. It advances the state's opportunities to increase access to, and improve the quality of, transportation options over the next ten years. Coloradans deserve a genuine choice on how to move about and between our communities, rather than the status quo of minimal public transit services that are often inconvenient, and a built environment that encourages driving for even short trips. To accomplish this, Vision 2035 sets goals for reliable transportation options such as transit, rail, biking, and walking that encourages mode shift.

For transit, reaching the non-auto mode share sub-goal would necessitate an increase in transit service of 83% (measured by transit revenue miles) from the current level of 79 million transit revenue miles to 145 million in 2035.

Transit Service Goal

At least 52% of new housing units in transit-oriented areas, and 77% within existing Census Urban Areas.