NOTE: As of 2024, the Sustainability program has been moved under Economic Development, in the City Manager's Office. This program's webpages will be moved to the Economic Development webpage in late 2024/early 2025.

Sustainability is a general concept used to describe a community that considers the long-term affects of its decisions on future generations and the natural world. It is a tool that helps individuals, communities, states, and nations focus on what needs to be done to ensure that future generations and natural communities are stable and thrive. In practice this means that a community recognizes that economy, society, and environment are mutually dependent and need to be balanced. To move toward sustainability, communities and individuals must incorporate this concept into both long-term and day-to-day decisions.

For most communities this requires a new mind-set. For Davis this means a renewed focus on established core community values of innovation and conservation and building on existing programs. This will allow Davis to take positive steps toward sustainability and provide an even stronger example of a community designed to address and adapt to the environmental challenges on the horizon.

2020 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) Update

The 2020 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) Update supports recent City Council actions to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction progress made since the 2010 CAAP adoption, identify physical and social vulnerabilities, establish and prioritize climate action and carbon reduction policies toward carbon neutrality, and bring the City into compliance with current state legislation.  Learn more about the CAAP Update process here.