NJDEP wrote the Strategic Climate Action Plan in response to Executive Order No. 100  and Administrative Order No. 2020-01 , which directed the Department to identify specific rules, guidance documents, and other regulatory mechanisms that will better integrate climate change considerations into the Department’s regulatory and permitting programs.

This report sets the course for the Department’s next phase of climate action by looking across all its programs to identify additional opportunities to meaningfully prepare the State for the impacts of climate change.

The Strategic Climate Action Plan public comment period closed on October 19, 2023.

Strategic Climate Action Plan