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 Vermont'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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Act 250

Vermont’s land use and development law, enacted in 1970 at a time when Vermont was undergoing significant development pressure. The law provides a public, quasi-judicial process for reviewing and managing the environmental, social and fiscal consequences of major subdivisions and developments in Vermont. It ensures that larger developments complement Vermont’s unique landscape, economy, and community needs. One of the strengths of Act 250 is the access it provides to neighbors and other interested parties to participate in the development review process.

H.0095: The Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund

The National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) is a federal affordable housing production program that complements existing Federal, State, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing for extremely low- and very low-income households, including homeless families and individuals.

Requirement for EJ Incorporation into DEC Programs

In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency set a standard for Environmental Justice incorporation into all Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) programs. The Environmental Justice Team was formed in 2018 to carry out the work.

The dual goals of creating affordable housing for Vermonters, and conserving and protecting Vermont's agricultural land, forestland, historic properties, important natural areas, and recreational lands are of primary importance to the economic vitality and quality of life of the State.

In the best interests of all of its citizens and in order to improve the quality of life for Vermonters and to maintain for the benefit of future generations the essential characteristics of the Vermont countryside, and to support farm, forest, and related enterprises, Vermont should encourage and assist in creating affordable housing and in preserving the State's agricultural land, forestland, historic properties, important natural areas and recreational lands, and in keeping conserved agricultural land in production and affordable for future generations of farmers.

Vermont Housing & Conservation Board

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The Vermont Social Vulnerability Index shows the number of vulnerability measures above the 90th percentile for Vermont census tracts. For each of the vulnerability measures, census tracts in the 90th percentile of vulnerability were assigned a flag. This SVI exhibits the sum of all flags for each census tract. There are a total of 16 measures in the SVI.