Small City Climate Action Plans

 A Role for Small Cities. 

One can easily assume that climate change and actions to mitigate its impacts seem to fall to national and state governments and large corporations. Not so fast… Small cities can strike a vision of a carbon-free city and prepare strategies and actions to meet their vision. 

“The Iowa City Climate Action Plan identifies 35 action items critical to meeting the city’s emission reduction goals.” Planning, The Magazine of the American Planning Association in its April 2019 edition offers an article describing the Iowa City program. The City’s population is 75,000. The link is www.icgov.org/climateaction.