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Regional climate collaborative briefs North Las Vegas on emissions, energy and outreach efforts
Summary
Clark County and regional partners updated the North Las Vegas council on progress of the All In Regional Climate Collaborative, including greenhouse gas inventory updates, distributed solar growth, an ambassador outreach program and an education campaign.
Representatives from Clark County’s Department of Environment and Sustainability and city staff presented an update on the All In Regional Climate Collaborative at the June 18 North Las Vegas City Council meeting.
Veronica Freeman, a grant officer representing the city on the collaborative, introduced the briefing and asked Jody Bechtel, assistant director of the Department of Environment and Sustainability, and Robert Bergey, the county’s climate and sustainability program manager, to present regional findings and activities.
Bechtel said the collaborative is an interlocal partnership among county and municipal governments and regional agencies that is implementing the All In Clark County sustainability and climate action initiative adopted in April 2023. The group has met repeatedly to coordinate capacity building, public education and regional climate action and to seek grant funding for implementation projects.
Bergey outlined several findings and efforts: the county updated its greenhouse gas inventory using 2022 data and reported total emissions of about 26,300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The collaborative retained a 32% emissions reduction target aligned with state goals and said current trends suggest the region is on a trajectory to meet that goal by 2030.
The presentation highlighted clean energy and building-efficiency strategies as priority pathways. Bergey said distributed solar installations number roughly 102,000 across the county (2023 data), and that more than 6% of 2022–2023 distributed-solar installations were in North Las Vegas.
County staff also described transportation trends (vehicle miles traveled dipped during the pandemic but are expected to rise) and local successes on urban forestry in North Las Vegas, including a Tree City USA designation and a lidar-based tree inventory. The collaborative launched an outreach program that hired 15 community ambassadors and reached 17,869 people in the last year through events, webinars and toolkits, the presenters said.
Council members asked about materials in other languages, ambassador participation in local events and demonstration projects such as cool pavements, xeriscape demonstration gardens and resilience hubs. Freeman and county staff said materials are available in English, Spanish and Tagalog, that ambassadors can staff city events, and that the collaborative seeks demonstration projects and additional funding for energy-efficiency programs and resilience hubs.
Why it matters: the collaborative coordinates regional resources for mitigation and adaptation, identifies local funding and incentive opportunities, and supports outreach that can increase participation in energy-efficiency and renewable-energy programs.
No formal council action was required or taken on the briefing.
