Climate Action Plans
Table of Contents
Introduction
This page is intended to list the many existing climate action plans and similar plans (such as watershed management plans) that we have discover while doing research on infrastructure solutions and related topics.
Search this page for your own community's action plan or do a web search to see if one exists for your area that we missed.
Don't Have An Action Plan?
Alternative you can also browse the ones on this page to help compile your own action plan.
At the bottom of this page are some resources and grants for creating your own action plan.
How to Get Started
Community Engagement
Resources
North America
USA
Fires & Wildfires
These produce dangerous pollution that exacerbates air pollution and climate change. They also endanger humans and entire ecosystems.
Fire Management & Alternatives
Composting can replace incineration for organic waste. Farmers specifically can help keep air clean for entire countries by shifting to composting instead of stubble burning, which causes deaths and increase climate change each year.
Perscirbed fires is an ancient practice that was mostly forgotten in the modern era. It offers a variety of benefits including that less materials are burned earlier in the year, meaning less pollution and ecological impact. The lower seasonal temperatures also mean that the fires are smaller, easier to manage, and less likely to turn into the scarier fires that they start creating their own weather patterns.
Flooding & Sea Level Rise
Flooding Risks & Impacts
Solutions for Flooding & Sea Level Rise
Tools & Calculators
North America
USA
Rewiring America: Track Your Local Pace of Progress "These projections from Rewiring America worked backwards from the emissions targets for 2050, and forward from current sales of machines for cooking, water heating, space heating, transportation, and rooftop solar to set a number of new clean electric machines that must be sold each year to reduce emissions from fossil-fueled machines. Type your city, county, or state into the search bar to get those numbers broken down for your area, by each machine category.
While creating this tool, one of things we found is that some individual communities and states are leading the way: their goals are bolder than the rest of the country and so don’t match the path laid out in our data. That’s a great problem to have. So our tool should not be considered the only source of its kind -- but one that reflects only one of the possible paths to decarbonization."
Minnesota
Organizations
North America
USA
Anthropocene Alliance (A2) "has almost 300 member-communities in 41 U.S. states and territories. They are impacted by flooding, toxic waste, wildfires, and drought and heat — all compounded by reckless development and climate change. The consequence is broken lives and a ravaged environment.
The goal of A2 is to help communities fight back. We do that by providing them organizing support, scientific and technical guidance, and better access to foundation and government funding. Most of all, our work consists of listening to our frontline leaders. Their experience, research, and solidarity guide everything we do, and offer a path toward environmental and social justice.
Supported by outstanding partner organizations with expertise in engineering, hydrology, public health, planning, and the law, A2 leaders have successfully halted developments in climate-vulnerable areas; implemented nature-based hazard mitigation strategies; organized home buyouts; and pushed for clean-ups at superfund sites, toxic landfills, and petrochemical plants.
We support everyone we can, but our special priority is people who have suffered the worst environmental impacts for the longest time; that usually means low-income, Black, Latinx, Native American and other underserved communities.
To learn about our policies, read our A 10-Point Platform on Climate Change."
New York
The Office of Resilient Homes and Communities "strives to address communities’ most urgent needs, while also encouraging the identification of innovative and enduring solutions to strengthen the State’s infrastructure and critical systems. The office utilizes approximately $4.4 billion in flexible funding made available by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program to concentrate aid to four main areas. Paired with additional federal funding that has been awarded to other State agencies, the CDBG-DR program is enabling homeowners, small businesses and entire communities to build back even better than before. And in a State already known for its great resiliency and can-do spirit, the efforts are paving the way for a tremendous comeback– one that will reinvigorate New York and better prepare it for future extreme weather events that come its way."
Grants & Funding
North America
USA
Minnesota
Watershed Management Planning Grants 🌊 "are intended to assist organizations to plan and prepare documentation for a project that will be implemented in the near future. Planning Grants help fund the planning process for detailed projects that help improve water quality through construction, education, outreach, or other creative ways."