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Evansville Climate Collaborative previews revised 2025–2030 Climate Action Plan and supporting studies
Summary
Staff told the board the Climate Action Plan is being revised into a 2025–2030 strategic plan with an intended draft in January, presentation to city council in February, and supporting greenhouse-gas inventory, resiliency assessment and energy audits to inform the plan.
Unidentified Speaker 2 updated the board on work to revise Evansville’s original Climate Action Plan into a 2025–2030 Climate Action Plan framed as a five-year strategic plan. Staff said the update focuses on streamlining strategies to make actions more actionable, measurable and timely.
Staff described emissions-reduction targets during the presentation but the transcript contains garbled dates for those interim targets; Unidentified Speaker 2 said goals include a 30% reduction and an 80% reduction as intermediate steps and referenced net-zero (carbon neutrality) by 2050 as the long-term benchmark commonly used in scientific guidance. The transcript’s numeric dates for those interim targets appear unclear and could not be reliably transcribed from the recording.
A draft of the revised CAP is planned to be completed in January, with staff planning to share a draft with the board and stakeholder groups and then take the plan to city council in February for consideration, according to Unidentified Speaker 2. Staff also said a greenhouse-gas inventory should be completed by year-end, a draft city resiliency assessment is available for review and energy audits on 13 city buildings are expected to report by the end of the year; these materials will inform the CAP and will be distributed to the board and posted on the ECC website when available.
Unidentified Speaker 4 and other board members described the adoption timeline as tight but acknowledged versioning and stakeholder review would follow. Staff emphasized that while the city plan is the immediate focus, many of the CAP actions are written so surrounding jurisdictions or other localities could adopt them in the future.
Next steps: staff will circulate the draft to the board and stakeholders ahead of public release and will provide the supporting data products (GHG inventory, resiliency assessment, energy-audit reports) for board review.
