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Panel Discussions

Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment

You Have a Climate Plan! Now What?

Monday, March 31, 2025
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM MT
Location: Mile High Ballroom 4
CM: .75
Climate plans vary in their strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving climate resilience. Learn how communities across the country have moved beyond plan adoption to successfully implement common strategy types.

Using interactive activities like polling and quizzes, panelists share examples of how different communities got to action through:
  • Prioritizing where to begin — Climate plans do not always include lists of immediate next steps and priorities can change after plan adoption. Will you pursue actions that are most popular in the community, that are the cheapest, that maximize climate benefits or benefits to disadvantaged communities, etc.?
  • Building coalitions of implementers — Climate plans cover myriad topics and can overwhelm under-resourced agencies tapped to lead implementation. How can you build a coalition of advocates to champion projects based on their areas of expertise and share responsibility for implementation?
  • Narrowing the lens — Climate plans set high-level frameworks and it might be necessary to dig deeper into certain topics. What additional studies will help deliver the work at a scale that is currently unachievable based on the climate plan?
Leave energized with ideas for how to take the next steps on plan implementation.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review a climate plan with fresh eyes to consider different methods for prioritizing next steps that can build momentum for implementation.
  • Categorize climate-plan strategies into packages that can be championed by different coalitions, based on technical and operational needs for implementation success.
  • Identify common follow-on analysis or studies for a high-level climate plan that communities and agencies are developing in order to provide detailed direction on specific climate strategy types.