Minneapolis City Council approves Climate Equity Plan

Source: Smart Cities World

It will help Minneapolis become an environmentally just, resilient, low-carbon and equitable city and features seven strategies to acheive outcomes by 2030.

Minneapolis City Council has approved the City’s Climate Equity Plan, which aims to further the City’s health and sustainability goals and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

By creating a Climate Equity Plan for all, the City said it is striving to achieve an environmentally just, resilient, low-carbon and equitable city.

Public feedback

Community member, partner, and stakeholder input was crucial in creating the final plan. During the public comment period (19 April 5-June), the Health Department received more than 1,000 responses with more than 1,800 comments. The top three among them were creating a more aggressive timeline, creating bigger, more measurable, and more transparent goals, and showing which departments are accountable for carrying out the plan.

Meanwhile, the top five topics of importance included:

• Energy systems (24 per cent)

• Healthy homes (22 per cent)

• Transportation (14.5 per cent)

• Green buildings (9 per cent)

• Green economy and workforce (8 per cent).

“The Climate Equity Plan gives us the vision and aspirational targets based on science,” said deputy commissioner Patrick Hanlon, Minneapolis Health Department. “We all need to work together as a community with an equity focus to reach these high and necessary goals.”

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