City of Bloomington, IN | Climate Action Dashboard
© 2025
Climate change is a global phenomenon—which means no single city or government can tackle it effectively alone. What’s more, the challenges posed by climate change, as well as the required solutions, are often regional in nature.
Recognizing this, the City of Bloomington alongside the City of Columbus, IN and Town of Nashville, IN, have established Project 46: a regional climate alliance aimed at providing a bipartisan, cross-sector, and multi-county approach toward addressing climate change. Project 46 and the group have four key goals:
Track and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as communities and as a region;
Coordinate local investments and leverage available state and federal funding opportunities, including, but not limited to, funding available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts;
Set goals, advance initiatives, highlight successes and challenges, and promote best practices by engaging government, nonprofit, and private sector leadership;
Produce an annual community report to demonstrate the activities and impact of these efforts and progress towards shared goals.
Project 46 is a nascent initiative and just getting started, but if you’re interested in learning more, a great place to start is watching the Regional Climate Convening that occurred in October 2022 and led to the establishment of the group.
Metrics
Total cumulative dollars donated to the Project 46 fund
As of 1/1/2025
Number of government entities having joined the Project 46 alliance
As of 1/1/2025
Public Infrastructure
By pooling together the shared resources, vision, and authority of several cities and towns in the region, Project 46 can be a foundation for greater investment in sustainable public infrastructure that improves the lives of local residents.
Economic Development
Project 46 promotes cross-county and cross-sector collaboration, allowing for more substantial environmental investments and leveraging funding from once-in-a-generation opportunities like the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts.
Racial & Social Equity
Project 46 is designed to be bipartisan and cross-sector, meaning it has a greater potential to bring a diversity of voices to the table. In this way, the community engagement efforts of Project 46 are more likely to include underrepresented voices and traditionally disadvantaged groups, ensuring they have a say in the stakeholder engagement process for local climate action.
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 | Establish a regional climate alliance |
