GHG Targets and Governance

GHG Targets & Governance

Alliance members are setting ambitious climate targets, developing and implementing detailed action plans, adopting programs that reduce emissions simultaneously across multiple sources, tracking progress, and engaging with communities, businesses, and other stakeholders to chart a path toward a net-zero future. 

GHG Targets & Governance | Michigan Governor Whitmer in Traverse City, Michigan

Member Action

GHG Targets & Governance

Below are tallies of the number of members that have adopted or are in the process of adopting statutory and executive policies and actions.

For the most up-to-date, in-depth breakdown of GHG targets and governance climate actions across our membership, explore the Alliance Policy Database.

Did You Know?

Member Spotlight

Maine Surpasses Medium-Term GHG Emissions Reduction Goals

In June 2024, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection released its 2024 inventory report, which shows that, as of 2021, the state had reduced its gross GHG emissions to 30% below 1990 levels, surpassing its medium-term goal. Further, the state’s lands sequestered a greater proportion of its gross GHG emissions than previous years, moving Maine closer to carbon neutrality.

October 2024

Press Release | 2024

U.S. Climate Alliance 2024 Annual Report | No Turning Back | Report details how a surge of investment, collaboration, and action from the Alliance’s 24 member states and territories is eliminating harmful climate pollution, growing the economy, and transforming communities across America.
U.S. Climate Alliance Releases Annual Report Highlighting Surge in Climate Investment and Action — “There’s No Turning Back”

The report highlights the Alliance’s recent progress and shows how the coalition’s member states and territories are raising ambition.

Press Release | 2024

The U.S. Climate Alliance today announced that 14 of its members have collectively secured more than $2 billion in historic funding as part of the second phase of the Biden-Harris administration’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program.
U.S. Climate Alliance Members Collectively Secure More Than $2.5 Billion to Slash Harmful Climate Pollution

These awards, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will provide direct funding to 14 Alliance states.