The Climate Action Plan (CAP) in Boulder, Colorado, is a set of strategies intended to guide community efforts for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
These strategies have focused on improving energy efficiency and conservation in homes and businesses—the source of nearly three-fourths of local emissions.
The plan also promotes strategies to reduce emissions from transportation, which account for over 20 percent of local greenhouse gas sources.
In November 2006, citizens of Boulder, Colorado, voted to approve Ballot Issue No.
202, authorizing the city council to levy and collect an excise tax from residential, commercial and industrial electricity customers for the purpose of funding a climate action plan[1] to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.