Connecticut Climate Action

Connecticut has long been a leader in climate action and recently adopted historic legislation. HB 5600, An Act Concerning Connecticut Global Warming Solutions, makes Connecticut  one of the first states in the nation to establish mandatory targets for reductions in global warming pollution.

Background

ENE published its Climate Change Roadmap for Connecticut  in 2003. The first of its kind, the report radically changed the state dialogue about climate change.  It showed how individual states could achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gases without waiting for the federal government to act.  Stakeholders in Connecticut relied extensively on ENE’s Roadmap during development and implementation off the state’s 2004 Act Concerning Climate Change. ENE was a leading participant in the development of state’s Climate Change Act. 

ENE's current work on climate action in CT focuses on advancing and implementing the 2008 Act Concerning Conneticut Global Warming Solutions.