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Since 2000, Chula Vista has been implementing a “Climate Action Plan” to address the threat of climate change impacts to the local community.  The most recent plan is the 2017 Climate Action Plan (CAP) which was adopted by City Council on September 26, 2017.  It includes ambitious new goals and policies to strengthen the City’s climate action efforts. Implementing the CAP facilitates achieving numerous community co-benefits such as utility savings, better air quality, reduced traffic congestion, local economic development, and improved quality of life. It brings together past City of Chula Vista climate plan efforts including the original Carbon Dioxide Reduction Plan (2000), the mitigation plan (2008) and the adaptation plan (2011).  The City regularly conducts greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories to help guiding the execution of the Climate Action Plan as well as to monitor and evaluate the progress. 

2024 Climate Action Plan Update  

In 2017, the City of Chula Vista adopted its Climate Action Plan, which has served as a roadmap to help our community reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect our environment. Since then, we have achieved many of the goals and strategies set out in the plan. 

However, our community and world has changed a lot since 2017 and it is now time to update our Climate Action Plan to help create a healthier and more equitable community, while furthering our commitment to environmental sustainability.    

Staff will be holding multiple workshops at all three Chula Vista Library locations, listed below, to help you learn more and collect feedback about this important update for our community.  Content will be the same at each event so choose the date and location that works best for your schedule.

  • 6/6/24 - At South Branch Library from 5:30 to 7:00 pm
  • 6/8/24 - At South Branch Library from 1:00 to 3:00 pm
  • 6/18/24 - The Hub Otay Ranch Town Center Suite 407 – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
  • 6/22/24 - The Hub Otay Ranch Town Center Suite 407 – 1:00 to 3:00pm
  • 7/11/24 - Civic Center Library Auditorium from 4:30 – 6:30pm
  • 7/13/24 - Civic Center Library Auditorium from 11:00 am -1:00 pm

If you are not able to make any of the workshops, you can view a recorded presentation (coming soon). 

You can also learn about this update by reviewing the 2024 Update Summary, below, to view an overview of GHG reduction strategies and goals that will be the foundation of the update and completing the survey. 

After collecting feedback from the community and incorporating it, staff will present the full 2024 Climate Action Plan to the public in the fall of 2024.  If you have questions or would like to provide additional feedback on the 2024 CAP Update, please contact Cory Downs at cdowns@chulavistaca.gov. 

2017 Climate Action Plan

Past Actions

Climate Emergency Resolution

The City of Chula Vista has adopted numerous climate related policies, plans and programs to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and while these actions have started to reduce our community’s carbon footprint, more action is needed locally and globally.  We have already begun to see the impacts of climate change through record breaking heat waves, droughts and wildfires locally, with more varied impacts seen globally.  The creation of the climate emergency declaration resolution is intended to update the City’s GHG reduction goals, to strengthen existing efforts such as the update to the City Operations Sustainability Plan and encourage new City actions and voluntary actions by residents and businesses.  Led by community members on the Sustainability Commission, this resolution was created to align with the more than 2,000 jurisdictions around the world and approximately 50 in California that have already adopted similar resolutions and showcase the need for more action at all levels of government and society.

 


Need help? Contact the City's Conservation Section at (619) 409-3893