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 New Jersey'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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Just Transition + Equity

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Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

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SB 2252, An Act Concerning the Use of Plug-In Electric Vehicles

Establishes goals and initiatives for increased use of use of plug-in electric vehicles including Charge Up New Jersey Rebate. Establishes goals and incentives for increased use of plug-in electric vehicles in NJ.

At least 25% of State-owned non-emergency light duty vehicles shall be plug-in electric by December 31, 2025; thereafter, 100% of these vehicles shall be plug-in electric by the end of 2035. By the end of 2024, at least 10% of new bus purchases made by NJ Transit will be zero emission busses, which will increase to 50% by the end of 2026 and 100% by the end of 2032. The legislation also directs the DEP to report on the state of the plug-in electrical vehicle market, the State's progress toward achieving the goals, identify barriers to achievement of the goals, and make recommendations for legislative or regulatory action to address barriers in New Jersey every five years.

By December 31, 2024, at least 10 percent of the new bus purchases made by the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall be zero emission buses, and the percentage of zero emission bus purchases shall increase to 50 percent by December 31, 2026, and 100 percent by December 31, 2032 and thereafter.

100% Zero-Emission NJ Transit Bus Procurements

The rule is expected to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric generating units through the application of output-based emission limits

Control and Prohibition of CO2 Emissions: Electric Generating Units

Inland Flood Protection Rule

The Inland Flood Protection Rule ensures that areas at most significant risk are better defined and that new and reconstructed assets in these areas are designed and constructed using the best available climate-informed precipitation data. Using the best available data is critical to protecting New Jersey’s assets, economy and, above all, our people from the catastrophic effects of worsening floods.

Purpose

- To ensure that new investments are well-suited to manage: Current levels of rainfall, runoff and flooding; The anticipated future conditions over the lifetime of an asset
- Support the wise deployment of Ida recovery and water infrastructure investments
- Inform new development and reconstruction; does not apply to existing development

New Jersey Statewide Resilience Action Plans: Scoping Document

For more information about Resilience Action Plans and the development process, the Interagency Council has compiled a Scoping Document for the public to review. 

Over the coming years, the New Jersey Interagency Council on Climate Resilience (Interagency Council) will release a series of topic-specific Resilience Action Plans that outline how state agencies will incorporate climate resilience into their policies, programs, and regulations to address critical climate threats to New Jersey.

Each of the Resilience Action Plans will focus on a specific climate threat to New Jersey, the first being extreme heat. The first Resilience Action Plan, to focus on extreme heat, will be released later this year.

Resilient Environments and Landscapes (REAL)

NJPACT REAL incorporates climate change considerations, like sea level rise into the environmental land use rules including the Coastal Zone Management Rules, the Freshwater Wetlands Rules, the Flood Hazard Area Rules, and the Stormwater Management Rules.

Primary elements:

1. Adjust Coastal Flood Hazard Areas to account for
rising sea levels and attendant storm surge,
extending jurisdictional area further inland,
requiring higher first-floor elevations or
floodproofing.
2. Remedy FEMA concerns about State’s consistency
with National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
through clarifying amendments to the FHA rules.
3. Support renewable energy through amendments
that balance habitat conservation with novel
infrastructure demands (e.g., location of offshore
wind support infrastructure).
4. Encourage nature-based solutions; sound
stormwater management practices; improved
water quality in degraded (urban) and source
(headwaters) areas.
5. Improve DEP permitting processes, including
pathways for expediting projects.