The City of Boston released a 62-page draft of its Climate Action Plan. Here are the highlights.
Aug 07, 2025
In 2007, after years of resident advocacy by BCAN and many others, the City of Boston created their first Climate Action Plan (CAP). Every several years since, the City has updated their CAP with input from an array of stakeholders, including residents. The most recent plan was released in 2019. This plan focused on buildings, energy, and transportation. In the time since then, our City has seen dramatic change: a global pandemic, economic recession, changing real estate market, and the election of a new Mayor running on a “Green New Deal for Boston.”
This year, the City is updating their Climate Action Plan for the first time in six years. Over the past several months, they heard from a variety of stakeholders: residents, institutions, businesses, utilities, labor unions, and technical experts. This week, they released the draft version for feedback from the public. This draft plan is 62 pages with 66 different strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving climate resilience. You can read the full plan here. City Hall is already taking action on climate in many ways. We break down which initiatives in the plan are current strategies, which are expansions of current strategies, and which ones are brand new.
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