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The City of Seattle is developing a new Climate Action Plan, and your voice is central to shaping the new plan!
Climate change and its impacts have significantly worsened since the City’s first Climate Action Plan was released in 2013. We have hotter summers, more severe storms that are damaging infrastructure, worsening air quality, and more.
Seattle’s new Climate Action Plan — to be released in 2026 — will meet this moment and newly focus on building climate resilience and adaptation, growing a green economy with good-paying local jobs, and protecting public health.
The new Climate Action Plan will be developed in close partnership with community. We want to hear directly from you and your neighbors about how you are experiencing climate change, solutions you are already using or would like to see, and other ways you want to be engaged.
Answer this two-question survey on Microsoft Forms to help shape Seattle’s new Climate Action Plan! Form will close at the end of the day on Monday, May 12.
The survey asks:
- What words or phrases capture the spirit of climate action in our city?
Answers will inform themes and topics in the Plan!
- Name one creative way you want to be engaged in climate action planning?
Answers will help us make sure we’re reaching people in every corner of our city as we develop the new plan over the next year.
In case you missed it, last month on Earth Day, Mayor Bruce Harrell signed an Executive Order directing City departments to update Seattle’s current Climate Action Plan and take immediate and medium-term actions to more quickly reduce climate pollution from transportation.
Nearly 100 community, governmental, and business partners joined us at Mini Mart City Park in Georgetown, a climate resilient arts and culture space in the Duwamish Valley.
Seattle’s Office of Sustainability & Environment (OSE) will be engaging community in this process over the next year through events, partnering with local nonprofits and other groups, asking for public input, and much more. We will compile answers to these questions over the next month and report back on themes and how we’ll incorporate answers into Seattle’s new Climate Action Plan.
Stay tuned! Get timely updates by following OSE on social media. Receive monthly news about Climate Action Plan development by subscribing to OSE’s newsletter.