As Jacksonville moves into the future with new development and a booming population, city leaders say it’s important to move forward into a clean future.
“Development as well as climate mitigation goes hand in hand,” City of Jacksonville sustainability manager Ashantae Green said Thursday morning. “As we look at our strategies, we see that transportation is responsible for 40% of our emissions, as well as our buildings.”
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The goal of the Northeast Florida Climate Action Plan is to identify those sustainability needs to create a plan for a greener tomorrow not just for Jacksonville, but all of Northeast Florida.
The initiative is backed by a $1 million Environmental Protection Agency federal grant, with a meeting held Thursday morning to start gaining public feedback on projects people would most like to see.
Some of the Jacksonville residents Action News Jax spoke to at Thursday morning’s roundtable discussion already had their creative ideas on how to bring Jacksonville into a cleaner tomorrow.