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Chicago's 2022 Climate Action Plan sets the framework to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 62% by 2040. The updated climate goals are designed to reduce carbon emissions while also increasing household savings, advancing environmental justice, and improving community health.

In 2008, Mayor Daley created a task force that devised the Chicago Climate Action Plan. The intention of this plan was to identify the sources of climate change and establish goals that slow its the effects for the city and Chicagoans to achieve by 2020. 

The Climate Action Plan for Nature involves embracing the three strategies of mitigating the future impacts of climate change, adapting to inevitable changes, and engaging in the Chicago Wilderness community, in order to face the effects of climate change and complement other local climate-related plans.

The City of Evanston's Climate Action and Resilience Plan is an initiative to make Evanston carbon neutral by 2050. It outlines targets such as greeenhouse gas reduction, powering all Evanston municipal properties on renewable resources by 2030, and achieving zero waste by 2050 to reach its overall goal.

This plan is for county-owned facilities and outlines the path the County will follow to fight climate change in the operation of county-owned facilities by achieving a 45-percent reduction in carbon emissions and using 100-percent renewable electricity by 2030 and making County-owned facilities carbon neutral by 2050. The Plan outlines detailed action steps to: REDUCE carbon emissions through energy efficiency at County-owned buildings; MAINTAIN those reductions through monitoring, education and other best practices; RENEW the County’s electricity supply through on-site solar energy generation, procurement of renewable energy and energy storage; and SUPPORT the Clean Energy Plan action steps through policies such as new building standards for County facilities.

The Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) seeks to increase renewable energy development in Illinois. Through objectives like creating clean jobs workforce hubs, reducing the equivalent of 1 million gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles on the road, and building more than 40 million solar panels by 2030, the act works to address the climate crisis while improving infrastructure. 

The 2021-23 CPS Climate Action Plan is a milestone in supporting energy and sustainability efforts throughout the district. It highlights how we will meet the challenges of climate change and identifies how we will do our part to mitigate our impact on the planet. With this plan, we are helping our future leaders understand the importance of addressing the climate crisis, resource depletion, and other inequities in our communities

The Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) was passed in 2017. The Act's main features are the expansion of Illinois' energy efficiency, the promotion of renewable energy throughout the state, and the creation of new energy jobs. While fixing Illinois' renewable energy funding, the act sets the goal of building 4,300 megawatts of new solar and wind power by 2030.

This plan was Illinois Green's 4 year initiative to achieve carbon drawdown in Chicago by 2020. Their goals were to ensure 3,500 Chicago building adopted carbon drawdown strategies, empower all 77 communities of Chicago to engage in carbon drawdown actions, and provide resources for 30,000 people to become educated about carbon drawdown.

ON TO 2050 is a comprehensive regional plan that builds on the recommendations of its predecessor, GO TO 2040. Its goal is to provide specific direction while focusing on the three principles of inclusive growth, resilience, and prioritized investment. 

Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation's PlanIt Green Environmental Sustainability Plan details goals and action for a 10-year period. It primarily focuses on the guiding principles of community involvement, environmental stewardship, fiscal responsibility, communication and effective implementation to a establish a 10-part core plan. 

Resilient Chicago works to address the four pressing challenges of having disparities between Chicago neighborhoods, addressing crime and violence, building critical infrastructure, and promoting cohesive communities. It outlines 12 goals and 50 actions that can be taken to achieve resilience.