Fort Lauderdale Net Zero Plan 2025

4  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

What is Being Recommended and Why? The City recognizes that reaching net zero will require a continued collaborative effort that relies on community-wide and municipal strategies. The plan provides a roadmap for 8 community-focused strategies and 7 municipal-focused strategies. Fifty-five specific actions are derived from these 15 strategies, and each action is assigned an implementation priority level of 1, 2, or 3 based on a high-level qualitative analysis of factors including:

 Timeframe

 Level of effort (LOE) for the City

 GHG impact

 Social equity impacts for the community

 Initial cost to the City

 Alignment with existing strategic priorities

 Life-cycle cost to the City

 Co-benefits

 Return on investment (ROI) for the City

 Qualitative estimate for additional costs borne by the community

Roadmap to Net Zero While the escalating impacts of the climate crisis have led to worldwide agreement about the need for immediate collective action to prevent irreversible damage, Fort Lauderdale recognizes that, with help from its City staff, partners, key stakeholders, and community members, it can make a contribution with positive outcomes for the City and the region. As noted above, the actions in this Plan are aligned with other Citywide planning efforts and other endeavors to make Fort Lauderdale a connected, prosperous, resilient, and safe coastal community. While the implementation of the Plan’s strategies actions will not on their own prevent future climate effects from impacting Fort Lauderdale, they will yield positive outcomes beyond GHG reductions. A snapshot of the City’s overall strategies and actions is presented in the summary graphic below, followed by an itemized table. Chapter 3 describes the strategies and actions in more detail and provides information regarding implementation efforts, funding opportunities, key performance indicators (KPIs), and responsible parties.

FORT LAUDERDALE NET ZERO PLAN