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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.
Climate adaptation is about developing strategies to help human and natural systems become more resilient to the effects of climate change.
Businesses face challenges from climate change's impacts, but they can also take steps to reduce their contributions to climate change.
The MPCA solicited project proposals to distribute $1.6 million for climate planning projects to communities across Minnesota.
Approximately $1.3 million in funding was available for local climate action planning and implementation projects.
Carba, a Minnesota-based company focused on carbon-capture technology, took home the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize at the 2023 MN Cup
Warming temperatures and increased rains caused by climate change continue to have real impacts on farms across Minnesota. Our agriculture industry will also play an important role in reducing the amount climate change causing pollution we produce as a state.
EPA awards Minnesota $200 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
The MPCA provides climate change technical assistance to Minnesotan, including one-on-one consultation or small group facilitation, to assess current capacity, build on strengths, and address underlying needs.
Communities that are resilient to climate change are able to effectively to prepare for and recover from its effects, and continue to thrive.
Data shows that ice cover on Minnesota's lakes doesn't last as long as it used to. That means a shorter ice fishing season, yes, but it also has implications for the environment and Minnesota's fish and wildlife.
State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025
The 2026 Climate Action Framework prioritizes reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting Minnesotans
Addressing climate change presents us with a historic opportunity to strengthen our economy, improve our health, and create a more equitable Minnesota for everyone.
Minnesotans are encouraged to share feedback through Nov. 9, 2025
Initiatives passed during the 2023 legislative session invest hundreds of millions of dollars to advance Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework.
Minnesota’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dropped by 14% between 2005 and 2022, according to a biennial report from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Department of Commerce
Although the impacts from Minnesota’s changing climate are touching all of us, some groups of people are more at risk.
MPCA established a network of long-term biological monitoring stations that represent a variety of stream types in their most natural condition.