Plan

Raleigh Community Climate Action Plan

Summary

The City of Raleigh recognizes the important role of local government in community climate action and has prepared this Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP), which begins to address the challenges that climate change presents to our region. The role of government, while important, is small in comparison to the actions that everyone must take. CCAP provides an evaluation of community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, strategies, and actions to reduce emissions; an understanding of the role of equity and the implications of climate change on vulnerable communities; and an overview of the impacts of climate change and how it affects our overall community resilience.

Year

2024

Details

Hazards Addressed

Extreme Heat

Flooding – Rainfall-induced

High Winds

Assets

Property

Transportation and Mobility

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Equity Insights

To ensure that the City and plan stakeholders adequately address equity during implementation, the project team developed and followed the equity process described in Chapter 3, “Supporting Climate Equity.” The equity advisory team met separately to discuss equity impacts and inform the equity analyses included in this document. As a final analytical step, the City convened four meetings with internal and external partners to discuss potential impacts that could result from CCAP (Climate Change Action Plan) implementation. In particular, these stakeholders worked through a process to review the short-term CCAP strategies against a set of equity indicators via the Equity Impact Matrix, an analytical tool that provides a high-level view of each strategy’s potential impacts on environmental, economic, and public health factors (see “Equity Impact Matrix” for more information).

Lessons Learned

It is critical when implementing the plan that the actions focus on providing benefits across the community and that they do not cause more harm to those in our community who have been or will be most affected by climate change.