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Sustainability

Get Involved with Sustainability

The City set ambitious sustainability goals and carbon emissions reduction targets. While the City takes steps to achieve these goals, involving the Palo Alto community is critical to meeting our aggressive sustainability targets. Find opportunities to take local action on climate and the environment and get involved in the City's sustainability efforts below.

Opportunities for Engagement

Youth Climate Advisory Board

The Palo Alto Youth Climate Advisory Board (YCAB), an advisory body of high school students founded in 2024, is dedicated to environmental sustainability and climate stewardship. Learn more about their work as the inaugural Board gets started and follow along to get involved at /YCAB.

Sustainability and Climate Action Events

Earth Day Festival 2026

Save the date for the third annual Palo Alto Earth Day Festival!

Palo Alto Baylands Planting

Volunteer to help plant the new Palo Alto Horizontal Levee in the Baylands!

Climate Action & Sustainability Workshop - Home Electrification

Join this special workshop as we discuss and have a community conversation on home electrification initiatives tradeoffs, challenges, and finding innovative ways to advance efforts.

Find all sustainability and climate action events here.

Sustainability News

Palo Alto Receives Gold Designation for Electric Vehicle Readiness

The United States Department of Energy recognized the City of Palo Alto as a top city in the nation to embrace electric vehicles (EVs), receiving their Charging Smart Program Gold-level designation.

Bay Area's First Horizontal “Living Levee” Under Construction

Nature-based solution to inform future sea level rise designs

From Your Back Yard to the Bay Preparing & Adapting to Climate Change

Protecting and enhancing the natural environment around us helps our community better prepare for and mitigate climate impacts. Learn ways the City is protecting our natural environment and what the community can do to help.

Stay up to date on what is happening with sustainability in Palo Alto. See more news here.

Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (S/CAP) Community Outreach

See how the Palo Alto community contributed to the S/CAP update.

Take Action

Learn more about what you can do to lead a more sustainable lifestyle and help Palo Alto achieve it's sustainability goals. Click on the icons below to find actions you can take today and programs and incentives offered by the City that can help.