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 Maryland'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 Generation

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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2050 Maryland Transportation Plan

The 2050 Maryland Transportation Plan, the “Playbook,” will improve how we move goods and services and connect people to the places where they live, work and play. The Playbook clearly outlines Maryland’s vision to provide safe, reliable, accessible, equitable, and sustainable transportation options to Marylanders across the State.

HB 538 - Housing Expansion and Affordability Act of 2024

The Housing Expansion and Affordability Act directly addresses Maryland’s housing supply and affordability crisis to lower costs and expand economic opportunity for Marylanders across the state. The bill incentivizes the construction of new housing by removing barriers to development that have contributed to the current supply shortage. The bill will also modernize land use law and expedite and simplify approval for transit-oriented development, development on former state-owned complexes, and housing development by 501(c)(3) organizations.

Requires local jurisdictions to allow an increase in density of qualified projects located within 3/4 mile of passenger rail stations. Also allows middle housing units in single-family residential zones, and allows for greater density levels for qualified projects built in multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use zones.

Density and Missing Middle Housing Requirements

As part of the 2050 Maryland Transportation Plan, the four objectives and thirteen strategies outlined in the Promote Environmental Stewardship Goal will achieve a 40 percent reduction in on-road transportation sector GHG emissions by 2031, and move towards net-zero by 2045.

On-Road Transportation Emissions Reduction Target

State Spending on Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Maryland

The Climate Solutions Now Act (CSNA) of 2022 adopted an ambitious set of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emission goals for the state of Maryland. As a part of that law, the Maryland General Assembly
instructed the Maryland Department of the Environment to prepare an analysis that identified the
total amount of state money spent on measures to reduce greenhouse gasses (and, to the extent
practicable, co-pollutants) during the immediately prior fiscal year. In addition, the analysis was to
present the percentage of that funding that benefited disproportionately affected communities. This report includes a proposed methodology to assess the types of spending that reduce GHG emissions by the State of Maryland and applies that methodology for the previous fiscal year (FY2023). This report is the first such analysis produced in fulfillment of the legislative requirement. Future analyses will be included as an attachment to the Maryland Commission on Climate Change’s annual report to the Governor and General Assembly, in accordance with § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, on the status of the State's efforts to mitigate the causes of, prepare for, and adapt to the consequences of climate change, including future plans and recommendations for legislation, if any, to be considered by the General Assembly.