Over the last year, our community and youth task forces identified possible ways for Clackamas County to reach our long term goal to become carbon neutral by 2050.

Now we need your feedback on how the county as a whole can get there. Your responses will help us understand the priorities and needs of our community so we can develop a Climate Action Plan (CAP) that can be implemented successfully. The survey is divided into categories such as energy, transportation, water, consumption and carbon sequestration. You can provide feedback about every topic, or you can choose the topics that matter to you most.

Take the climate action survey. And please share this survey widely with your friends, family and neighbors!

We'll send an update soon with information about two virtual Community Conversations on Climate planned in June. At these online public meetings we’ll share more information about the climate action plan project and climate change impacts in Clackamas County, and respond to questions and comments. The conversation will begin with a brief presentation about the climate action plan project, followed by time for you to ask questions about the project, talk about how climate change has made a difference for you and suggest ways we can all help meet our goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.

Stay tuned!

The Youth Advisory Task Force (YATF) is hosting a virtual conversation for people ages 12-25 who live in Clackamas County.

A group of 24 youth make up the YATF and have been meeting to discuss climate issues since early 2021. This group helped develop the initial climate target actions we are now requesting feedback on through the online community survey referenced above.

Since youth will face more impacts from climate change than any other group alive today, it is vital that climate action discussions include youth.

Please share this opportunity with youth in your life so their voices are included in these important conversations!

We welcome people, organizations and businesses from throughout Clackamas County to help achieve our countywide goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. This newsletter is one way to share information and opportunities for community members to be engaged. If you know of folks - students, neighbors, colleagues, supervisors, electeds - who are interested in climate change and climate action, please share this newsletter and encourage them to sign up.

We also want to know what kind of information you would like in this newsletter and on the project webpage. Send suggestions to climate@clackamas.us.

Thank you for being on this journey with us!

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