Carlsbad rolls out public Climate Action Plan dashboard; council receives report
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Staff presented a new online dashboard tracking implementation of the city’s updated Climate Action Plan; the council received the report and staff said the dashboard will be updated at least annually and incorporated into future annual reports.
City staff presented an online dashboard that summarizes progress on Carlsbad’s updated Climate Action Plan and said it will be updated at least annually alongside formal annual reporting.
"With a newly updated Climate Action Plan, I wanted to close out reporting for the previous Climate Action Plan," said Katie Hentrich, the city's climate action plan administrator, as she described the dashboard and its five sections: overview, energy, transportation, carbon sequestration and waste diversion, and future measures. Hentrich said the updated plan adopted in November 2024 contains 23 measures grouped into six categories, each with monitoring metrics.
The dashboard provides short descriptions, data units and links to more information for each measure, staff said. Examples shown to the council included community choice energy participation, transportation demand management metrics, and organics-diversion figures. Hentrich said staff will prepare a 2025 annual report in early 2026 and present it to the council; the dashboard will be updated at least annually and can display trend charts as more data becomes available.
Multiple members of the public commented. Linda Daniels, who identified herself as a member of the Carlsbad Clean Energy Alliance advisory council and a Sierra Club member, praised the dashboard and urged more frequent interim updates and the city’s pursuit of projects such as solar canopies over parking lots. A public commenter who identified himself as Mike Borrello criticized the CAP update's economics and urged a broader fiscal analysis; another speaker, Don Christensen, urged the council to pursue solar canopies and battery storage.
Councilmembers asked staff how the dashboard will be publicized and whether web analytics will be tracked; David Van Gellaway of the Information Technology Department told the council metrics are being tracked and will be reported in a subsequent update. Staff said the dashboard will be profiled in the city manager's update and environmental sustainability newsletter and that communications staff will promote it on city channels.
The item was received for information; no council action was required.