A climate-resilient platform for Denver’s next mayor

The next mayor of Denver faces a range of pressing challenges, including homelessness, housing affordability, and public safety, that all need to be tackled. Yet, if we address those issues alone without a systemic approach to making the city more equitable and climate resilient, we will likely find ourselves in a similar spot to where we are now.

Underlying many of these social and economic issues are longstanding environmental challenges and injustices that threaten to make Denver significantly less habitable and wear away at the economy of the region. 

Over the last 10 years, the City and County of Denver has convened hundreds of experts and community members who have developed robust plans to achieve dozens of ambitious yet reasonable goals that can address these…