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 Oregon'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

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Climate Finance

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Metropolitan Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets

This division requires cities, counties, and Metropolitan Service District serving the Portland metro area (Metro) to change transportation and land use plans to significantly reduce pollution from light vehicles. This division places specific requirements on Metro in recognition of its unique status in Oregon. This division also requires cities and counties within other metropolitan regions to work together to prepare a preferred land use and transportation scenario that describes a future set of desired transportation facilities, alternative future land use patterns, and policies that will reduce greenhouse gas pollution from light vehicles. This division requires the cities and counties within a metropolitan area to prepare a transportation and land use scenario plan that defines and implements a preferred scenario, identifies performance measures for tracking progress, and works to not only avoid or mitigate any impacts to underserved populations, but to improve outcomes for these communities over time.

Targets are the reductions beyond reductions in emissions that are likely to result from the use of improved vehicle technologies and fuels.

The Greenhouse Gas, or GHG, Emissions Reduction Toolkit is a collection of strategy reports and case studies designed to help local jurisdictions identify and explore the kinds of actions and programs they can undertake to reduce vehicle emissions. Additionally, they are designed to meet other community goals, such as spur economic development, increase biking and walking, support downtowns, create healthy livable communities and more.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Toolkit

"Target” means a reduction from 2005 emission levels of per capita greenhouse gas emissions from travel in light vehicles. Targets are the reductions beyond reductions in emissions that are likely to result from the use of improved vehicle technologies and fuels.

Oregon Statewide Transportation Strategy: A 2050 Vision for GHG Emissions Reduction

The Oregon Statewide Transportation Strategy: A 2050 Vision for GHG Emissions Reduction, or STS, is Oregon's roadmap to reduce emissions from the transportation sector and achieve the state greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal and metropolitan targets. The STS is a state-level scenario planning effort that examines all aspects of the transportation system, including the movement of people and goods, and identifies a combination of strategies that agencies, private industry, and Oregonians can take to reduce GHG emissions through the year 2050. The STS includes a variety of effective GHG emissions reduction elements in vehicle and fuel technologies, system operations, transportation options, urban land use patterns, and pricing, funding and markets.

In 2018, the Oregon Transportation Commission adopted an amendment to incorporate the STS into ODOT policy as part of the Oregon Transportation Plan. The 2023 Oregon Transportation Plan includes a policy and supporting strategies to implement the STS and realize the statewide GHG emissions reduction goal.

SB 1059: An Act relating to greenhouse gas emissions; limiting expenditures; and declaring an emergency

Directs Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) to adopt statewide transportation strategy on greenhouse gas emissions to aid in achieving emission reduction goals. Directs OTC to actively solicit public review and comment in strategy development. 

Directs Department of Transportation (ODOT) and Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) to establish guidelines for developing and evaluating alternative transportation scenarios to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toolkit to assist local governments in developing and executing actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles with gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less.

On or before June 1, 2011, directs Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), in consultation and cooperation with OTC and Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), to adopt rules identifying reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles with gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less to be met by each region served by MPO.