Telluride Climate Action Plan

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Year Published: 2014

Published by: Michelle Haynes, University of Colorado Denver 

Summary

This report creates a Climate Action Plan (CAP) for the Town of Telluride community including an inventory of existing greenhouse gas emissions. It is in direct response to the town government’s 2013 Energy Use & Carbon Footprint Summary that stated the town government’s greenhouse gas reduction efforts are aggressive and successfully trending downward; however, the town government comprises only 4% of the total emissions for the community. A community CAP is necessary to address the larger emissions profile and associated strategies, but the town government lacks the necessary resources to generate the community CAP (Guglielmone, 2014). The town government passed a resolution in 2009 committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020 over 2005 levels. This report finds that the town government greenhouse gas reduction efforts, combined with community efforts have met and in fact, exceeded the reduction goal.