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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Just Transition + Equity

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Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

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Strong Communities, Better Connections Grants Awarded

In a new collaboration to support vibrant community centers and increase in town and regional transportation options, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) are pleased to announce the Strong Communities, Better Connections (SCBC) Pilot Grant Program has funded three projects that help align land use planning and community revitalization efforts with transportation investments. 

The Better Connections Program is a partnership between the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD), the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

The Better Connections Program provides technical assistance and funds to local communities to help them achieve their goals and plan for growth.  The program funds planning efforts to increase multi-modal transportation options and to improve land use, water quality, public health, and economic vitality in Vermont communities.  The interagency program provides targeted municipal assistance to:

- help communities identify and prioritize their goals and projects;
- develop an action-oriented plan to achieve the goals and move projects directly to implementation; and
- link the communities to a growing network of public and philanthropic partners to help them implement their priority projects.

Better Connections Program

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Report to the Vermont Legislature-Second Checkback Report on the Clean Heat Standard Under Act 18 of 2023, Section 6(i)

Resilience Implementation Strategy

The Strategy will build off the considerable work done to date across State Government to identify and prioritize climate resilience needs and evaluate the sufficiency of currently available funding. The Strategy will incorporate extensive stakeholder engagement and will also recommend criteria for allocating state support for climate change resilience projects and approaches for funding implementation efforts on an on-going basis.

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.

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.