ST. PAUL — Officials are updating the three-year-old document guiding state agencies’ response to climate change.

The 2026 draft of the Minnesota Climate Action Framework will include additional modeling of greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as an added seventh goal: lowering emissions from commercial and residential buildings, and ensuring they can better withstand more severe and frequent weather events.

Kate Knuth, climate director at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said Minnesotans want the state to address climate change, the effects of which they are already seeing through wildfire smoke, warming winters and extreme heat.

“Minnesotans want to see climate action,” Knuth said. “They’re hungry for the state to lead on climate.”

In 2023, the original Climate Action

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