2023 reCAP Update: Watch the recording of the progress report delivered on February 7, 2024 here.
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About the Climate Action Plan
Sustainable Princeton led the charge in coordinating and completing Princeton’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). Completed and adopted by Princeton Council at the July 22, 2019 Council meeting, the CAP articulates strategies to reduce carbon emissions and to help the community become more climate-resilient. The plan provides an ambitious, community-based path to reduce emissions 50% (from 2010 levels) by 2030, 65% by 2040, and 80% by 2050. While achieving these goals, the plan strives to promote social equity, foster economic stability, improve the local environmental quality, and enhance public health and safety.
Thank you to the 4,600+ community members who engaged with the plan throughout the process. The CAP received formal letters of support from the Princeton’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, Board of Health, Environmental Commission, Public Transit Advisory Committee, Shade Tree Commission and the Sustainable Princeton Board of Trustees. Thanks also goes to the CAPERS team which supported the CAP with its research efforts.
The most essential aspects of Princeton CAP are summarized in four simple pages, The Princeton CAP Executive Summary (see above). To read the final version of the Princeton Climate Action Plan (CAP), you can download the full report here.
On February 7, 2024 Sustainable Princeton gave an update on the progress our town has made on its climate action goals since the CAP was adopted by council in 2019.
In 2018, energy consultant Greener By Design was contracted to compile a complete inventory of Princeton’s greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 to 2017. This inventory is annually updated as a resource for the Princeton CAP. Learn about the updated inventories for 2019 and 2020.
Completed in 2017, this presentation reviews the Princeton Environmental Commission’s 2009 Sustainable Princeton Community Plan and provides a report on progress from 2009 to 2017.
Sustainable Princeton is a non-partisan, non-profit organization in Princeton, NJ with a mission to inspire our community to develop and implement solutions that positively impact our environment. It’s our vision that Princeton be a model town that examines every action through the lens of sustainability ensuring a healthy environment, a strong economy, and the wellbeing of all community members now and in the future.
