Columbia officials are calling on residents, local organizations and outside experts to review its plan for cutting emissions and responding to a warming climate.

The first iteration of the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan was approved by the City Council in 2019, after a two-year development process. Since then, according to an October 30 public hearing , the CAAP has yielded mixed results.

Six years on, the city has had some success: total greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 14% in the past decade, and the city has been successful in advancing sustainable public transit and community greenspace.

At the same time, some aspects of the plan were deemed too unrealistic for the time being, and funding opportunities were less abundant than anticipated. Unpredictable factors, like

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