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GRESHAM, Ore. – On April 16, The Gresham City Council unanimously voted to adopt the City’s first Climate Action Plan. The Climate Action Plan is a five-year plan that aims to reduce Gresham’s greenhouse gas emissions, protect our environment and create a more resilient community to the impacts of a changing climate.
“After years of development and collaboration with our community, we are pleased to present this plan to Gresham,” said Gresham Mayor Travis Stovall. “The Climate Action Plan will serve as our guide as we all work together to ensure Gresham remains a healthy, vibrant and safe place to call home.”
The Climate Action Plan has been in development for the past three years. During this time, staff have intentionally engaged with the Gresham community through workshops, surveys, and events to hear the input and feedback needed to shape the plan. This ultimately has led to the creation of a more holistic plan that not only encompasses City priorities, but community values as well.
With the plan’s formal adoption, the first strategies to be implemented will be:
- Increasing the community's access to energy efficiency and weatherization resources that provide energy cost savings, reduce emissions, and improve indoor health and safety.
- Increasing the community's access to emergency response and preparedness information and resources that improve the community's ability shelter-in-place during extreme weather.
- Supporting the maintenance and improvement of tree canopy in neighborhoods that are vulnerable to urban heat islands.
The City’s Department of Environmental Services is working to secure grant funding to distribute these resources at no cost to the community and to put together educational workshops on these topics.
Gresham has been on a journey toward climate action for years, beginning with Gresham’s signing of the Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement in 2007. Gresham, along with 1,000 other cities in the United States pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and make climate action a priority.
City Council adopted Gresham’s first Sustainability Policy in 2009, followed by the City’s Internal Operations and Facilities Sustainability Plan in 2011, which provided the first strategies for reducing emissions in City operations.
Recognizing the impacts climate change has on not only a community’s health and safety, but the economy as well, the City of Gresham has been a trailblazer in climate action initiatives, paving the way for the adoption of this historic city-wide Climate Action Plan.
To read the plan and learn more, please visit GreshamOregon.gov/Government/Climate-Action.
About Gresham:
Gresham is a welcoming community of hard-working people where tradition meets innovation and opportunity in Oregon's fourth largest city. Gresham’s residents care deeply about our roots as a homestead and agricultural community and are committed to building a vibrant future. Today, Gresham is a dynamic and rapidly growing city with a desire to thrive. In Gresham, we are family. To learn more, visit www.GreshamOregon.gov or visit us on Twitter at @CityofGresham.
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