Pleasant Hill creating plan to combat climate change
PLEASANT HILL, CA (Mar. 24, 2025) — The city of Pleasant Hill is embarking on its first Climate Action Plan (CAP).
This will give us a roadmap to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) while promoting sustainable development, resilience and equity throughout the community. The targets of this plan will align with California’s goal to reduce GHG emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
These are ambitious goals, and our CAP is a vital tool in working toward these goals. The city kicked off this process by making our new library a net zero facility as well as net zero carbon facility.
Pleasant Hill has hired an outside consultant, Blue Strike Environmental, to assist us in creating the CAP. We held two community events in January and February to get feedback from the public, including local non-profit groups and local and regional agencies. We are currently asking the public to participate in this process by answering a survey.
You can find the survey and much more information about this project at www.phillca.gov/CAP2025. On this site, the public can not only sign up for regular updates from the project team but also can read about many ways that we as individuals can positively impact our climate goals.
Earth Day
Along with these efforts, we invite the public to an Earth Day celebration on April 24, which we will celebrate in conjunction with the weekly Off the Grid food truck event. Please join us for dinner and participate in Earth Day crafts and activities 5-7 p.m. at City Hall.
Other activities related to climate include:
- Earth Day proclamation at the April 21 City Council meeting.
- Tinkers & Thinkers Launch Party, noon-3 p.m. April 26.
- Pleasant Hill Instructional Garden Earth Day Celebration, 12:30-4:30 p.m. April 27.
One of the impacts of climate change has been the increasing number of wildfires. I want to assure the public that we take the safety and emergency preparedness of our community seriously. We do annual emergency operations training, with our most recent one held on Feb. 20, simulating a scenario involving multiple pipeline explosions within the city. Representatives from the city, Rec & Park District, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill Police and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) participated.
Please keep updated on all of these activities through the Outlook, our city’s newsletter, and on the Climate Action Plan website.
Contact Mayor Noack at Snoack@phillca.gov.