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State of Rhode Island Climate Change

2025 Climate Action Strategy

The 2025 Climate Action Strategy is the next step in our implementation of the Act on Climate which requires the state to incrementally reduce climate emissions to net-zero by 2050. This plan will be developed in tandem with the EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) process. 

Key Elements of Rhode Island's Climate Action Strategy

Energy Efficiency
 We will make sure that our homes, buildlings, and transportation use energy as efficiently as possible so we need less.
Transition Away from Fossil Fuel
 We will transition our buildings, vehicles, businesses, and manufacturing away from using oil and gas and towards electricity and alternative fuels.
Green our Energy Supply
 We will produce energy from sources like wind and solar to make sure that when we transition to electric power it will be clean.
Remove Carbon from the Air
 We will conserve open space and forests, plant more trees, and support agriculture so that carbon will be stored in plants and soil.
Just Transition
 We will help the community to make a just transition to a new energy system by supporting workers to learn new trades, making streets safer for multiple forms of transportation, addressing needs around transit, food, and public green spaces, and supporting local climate resilience plans.

See below for meeting presentations and related documents

Preliminary Timeline