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WHAT IS ONE REGION FORWARD?
One Region Forward is a broad-based collaborative effort to promote more sustainable forms of development in Erie and Niagara counties – the Buffalo Niagara Region – in land use, transportation, housing, energy and climate, access to food, and more. It combines research and public engagement with planning and action to help us meet the combined economic, environmental, and social challenges of the 21st century.
One Region Forward was launched through a planning process to craft a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, a federally recognized document that gives our region priority status for funding opportunities today and into the future.
The plan, called A New Way to Plan for Buffalo Niagara serves as a practical roadmap for improving mobility, promoting more efficient land use patterns, strengthening our basic infrastructure, growing a 21st century economy, ensuring broad access to healthy food, protecting housing and neighborhoods, and mounting our region’s response to the challenge of global climate change.
ONE REGION FORWARD IMPLEMENTATION
Through One Region Forward, we learned what we as the Buffalo Niagara region want out of our transportation system in broad terms. GBNRTC’s Moving Forward 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan Update identifies how our transportation systems can help us achieve the region’s goals via specific strategies and targeted transportation projects.
Buffalo Niagara’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP)
The Implementation Toolkit
In 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) awarded GBNRTC a Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CRPG) to develop a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) for Erie and Niagara Counties. The CCAP, entitled “10 Big Actions to Reduce Emission in Buffalo Niagara”, builds off of the Buffalo Niagara Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) developed in 2025 and lays out a suite of strategic moves that the region can pursue over the next 25 years to significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
The CCAP is the result of more than eighteen months of research, data analysis, and engagement with a broad array of stakeholders and community members across Erie and Niagara Counites. The plan focuses on actions that can be taken at the community and regional scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region while catalyzing benefits for the region’s people and economy.
The CCAP is available and accessible by clicking the image below.
This Implementation Toolkit is a companion report to 10 Big Climate Actions to Reduce Emissions in Buffalo Niagara, the Buffalo Niagara region’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP), intended to support the implementation of the CCAP’s recommended climate mitigation measures.
This document presents key excerpts from the CCAP along with the “Framework for Implementation” section in its entirety, which identifies actions that can be taken by local governments, community organizations, businesses, and residents to operationalize the CCAP’s “10 Big Climate Actions,” as well as funding opportunities and other resources to enable progress.
The Toolkit is available and accessible by clicking the image below.
Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP)
The Buffalo Niagara PCAP, developed in February 2024, is a narrative report that focuses on near-term, high-priority strategies to reduce GHG pollution from across the economy including transportation, housing, and commercial buildings which comprise 82% of emissions in our region along with other key sectors.
The PCAP is available and accessible by clicking on the image below.
