When it comes to addressing the climate crisis, the best time to act is now. That’s why it’s so exciting that SLCgreen and partners across Salt Lake County and Tooele County just finished creating a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) for the region through what we’ve called the Greater Salt Lake Area Clean Energy & Air Roadmap (SL-CLEAR).
As part of the process, we were able to:
✅ 1. Create a high-level greenhouse gas inventory for the region. This is exciting because it provides a quantitative framework to understand where our emissions are coming from and then how to benchmark progress to reduce them!
✅ 2. Identify high-impact measures to reduce local emissions and air pollution in the near term. These strategies can be used across the metro area by policymakers and the public to guide future planning and projects.
✅ 3. Conduct a public survey that helped us better understand residents’ thoughts on climate change and air pollution and how residents would like to see available funding used.
And this is just the beginning.
Stay tuned for a larger engagement and analytical effort to create a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan for the metro area – due August 2025.
We are also in the process of submitting select “implementation-ready” ideas for competitive grant funding as we speak. We hope to have good news on that front this summer.
You can view the full SL-CLEAR Priority Climate Action Plan here if you’d like to learn more.
You can also see the State of Utah’s parallel plan, the Beehive Emissions Reduction Plan, here.