Colorado has initiated a variety of efforts to combat climate change.
In May 2019, Governor Jared Polis signed into effect new legislation, which included renewable energy, carbon reduction, and transportation goals.
- The Climate Action Plan to Reduce Pollution set the state's greenhouse gas emission goals to reach 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, and 90% by 2050.
- By 2030, the state aims to put 940,000 zero-emission vehicles on the road, and 500 electric transit vehicles.
- Colorado boasts having the first voter-passed renewable energy standard, which requires all investor-owned utilities to transition 30% of their electricity to renewable energy by 2020.
- In 2014, Colorado became the first state to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas, and has been reducing emissions by an estimated 64,000 tons each year.