ENE Climate Change Roadmaps

After two years of intensive research and consultation with leading climate scientists and policy makers, Environment Northeast published its Climate Change Roadmap for New England and Eastern Canada – a comprehensive, first-ever regional strategy for achieving a 75 percent reduction in carbon emissions by mid-century. 

Background

ENE published its first Climate Change Roadmap, for Connecticut, in 2003. The first of its kind, the report radically changed the state dialogue about climate change.  It showed how individual...
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ENE Climate Change Roadmaps

Building on our successful state-based Climate Change Roadmap for Connecticut, the regional Roadmap presents wide-ranging, practical solutions and describes in depth how these policies can be implemented.

 

The Roadmap presents 10 categories of solutions that fall into one of three broad areas: energy, transportation and carbon storage. Fully implemented, the 10 Priority Climate Solutions would reduce greenhouse gas pollutants from power plants, industrial sources, and cars and trucks some 35 to 40 million metric tons by 2020.

 

Many of the steps ENE recommends have been incorporated into comprehensive energy reform legislation that has either passed or is under current consideration in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. ENE continues to meet with leaders across the region to discuss how to implement the Roadmap’s policy recommendations.

The Roadmap can be downloaded in its entirety (240 pages), or by its individual chapters: Energy, Transportation and Sequestration.  A 74-page summary of the Roadmap is also available.  See Papers & Publications below.