Background
- Last Updated on Tuesday October 1st, 2024
The overall goal of the St. Louis Regional Climate Action Plan is to document a path for the region to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. This will be accomplished by:
- Creating an inventory of activities planned and already under way in the St. Louis MSA
- Analyzing the possibility of scaling the existing projects up
- Estimating the carbon reduction potential of the existing and scaled-up projects
- Laying the groundwork for new projects needed to fill the gap in emissions reduction to achieve Net Zero by 2050.
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Timeline
A Comprehensive Climate Action Plan will be due in December of 2025.
Updates
East-West Gateway staff conducted a stakeholder engagement process and compiled a list of carbon emissions reduction projects that were included in an interim deliverable called a "Priority Climate Action Plan". Gateway staff also coordinated with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) and the Illinois Environmental Projection Agency (ILEPA) to ensure projects from across the region would be eligible for implementation funding. The documents submitted by EWG, MoDNR and ILEPA are available below:
St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area
State of Missouri
State of Illinois
ILEPA received implementation funding for state-wide distribution. EWG staff will monitor how the ILEPA will distribute that funding.
