TIMES RECORD • January 9, 2025
Topsham is ironing out updates to its decade-old Climate Action Plan, with a new draft expected to be ready in the next few weeks. The Topsham Energy Committee started working on the updates with the Topsham Planning Department in 2023. The plan originally focused on greenhouse gas emissions and subsequent actions to limit them, but it is now refocusing on multiple aspects of climate-related impacts on Topsham. Among the expected updates to the town’s 2012 Climate Action Plan is an infrastructure assessment for adaptation and mitigation strategies, along with a look at peoples’ susceptibility to the effects of climate change. Topsham plans to have around half of its land in conservation to prepare for sea-level rise. The Climate Action Plan will be on the warrant at the annual Town Meeting in May.