Office of Sustainability will work with consultant to develop Municipal Climate Action Plan

Asheville -- City of Asheville June 17, 2021 Community news: At the June 8 City Council meeting, City Council voted

unanimously to enter into a contract with environmental strategy firm AECOM to update the City’s Sustainability Management Plan into a Municipal Climate Action Plan [MCAP].

The purpose of the Municipal Climate Action Plan is to update the City’s 2009 Sustainability Management Plan with newly adopted resolutions around climate resiliency, and climate justice. Below are the additional policies that have been adopted by Asheville City Council since the adoption of the Sustainability Management Plan in 2009:

Resolution 11-77 Establishing a Carbon Footprint Reduction Goal
Resolution 13-17 Adopting a Food Policy Action Plan
Resolution 14-27 Establishing a Waste Reduction Goal
Resolution 16-64 Energy Innovation Task Force
Resolution 17-257 Asheville’s 2017 Food Policy Action PlanAsheville’s Food Policy Action Plan
Resolution 18-05 EITF Recommendations into the Sustainability Management Plan
Resolution 18-279 100% Renewable Energy Goal for Municipal Operations + Buncombe County’s community goal100% RE Roadmap
Resolution 19-107 BHP Implementation
Resolution 20-25 Declaration of a Climate EmergencyAsheville Climate Resilience Assessment
Climate Justice Initiative
 

The Municipal Climate Action Plan will address high-impact projects to build a more resilient organization and continue to address the City’s goals for carbon mitigation.

The development of a roadmap to implement a Municipal Climate Action Plan will allow the City to better understand the resources required to fulfil the City’s commitments to address the climate crisis and keep the City on track for a just climate transformation. This roadmap is specifically designed to address City operations and the role the City plays to achieve community-wide goals.

To learn more about the City’s Sustainability initiatives go to our website and sign up for the Office of Sustainability’s quarterly newsletter.  here https://www.ashevillenc.gov/department/sustainability/