There are two levers for acting on climate change: reducing our GHG emissions and adapting to unavoidable changes. Our Climate & Energy Plan identifies opportunities to reduce GHGs, while enhancing our community’s resilience to those climate hazards we are already experiencing.
Watertown is committed to taking action on climate change while preserving and strengthening our unique neighborhoods, natural resources, and diverse communities. Resilient Watertown, our Climate & Energy Plan, outlines 8 goals, 16 strategies, and 61 priority actions to ensure Watertown is on a path to a net zero, resilient future.
Timeframe Key: Short (<1 year), Medium (1-3 years), Long (3-5 years)
As we implement the actions in our Climate & Energy Plan, it's important that we pursue measures to enable successful implementation, including by enhancing coordination and capacity. Doing so will help create linkages across the 5 Plan Elements and achieve multiple goals at once. The City is committed to pursuing these 5 cross-cutting strategies to achieve synergies across multiple goals and enable successful implementation of all strategies and actions.
Watertown is where things get made. Here, generations of industry flourish beside new technologies and a growing diversity of cultures. As a changing climate and shifting economy threaten to disrupt the place we call home, Resilient Watertown is how we will chart the course to a sustainable future together.
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The century ahead promises to challenge every one of us, but Watertown has proven time and again that we have what it takes to keep people safe, happy, and strong. Please join us in developing a Plan that meets all of Watertown’s needs, now and into the future.
