Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JANUARY 15, 2026
Subject
SUBJECT: MOVING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY FIVE-YEAR UPDATE
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Moving Beyond Sustainability (MBS) Five-Year Update.
Issue
ISSUE
In September 2020, Metro's Board of Directors (Board) adopted Moving Beyond Sustainability (MBS), our 10-year Sustainability Strategic Plan (Plan). The Plan commits Metro to several ambitious sustainability goals to achieve three things: first, advance the agency's sustainability vision of creating an organizational culture and workforce that continually integrates sustainability into all aspects of decision-making and execution; second, increase mobility and access to opportunities for the communities Metro serves; and third, affirm Metro as a public transit leader that is setting the standard for transit agencies across the United States on taking bold action to tackle climate change and address serious environmental challenges. The MBS is Metro's sustainability and resiliency roadmap to 2030 and beyond.
When Metro adopted MBS, staff committed to updating the Plan every five years, accompanied by formal progress reports every two years and annual performance updates through Metro's online Sustainability Reporting Dashboard. This document is our first formal Five-Year Update.
Background
BACKGROUND
Metro is California's largest transit agency (by ridership) and the second-largest in the United States. Metro serves nearly a million riders each day, and consequently, the agency's operations and services have a measurable, positive impact on our environment and climate. Ridership associated with the use of our transportation system provides benefit to annually reduce over a million metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from entering the atmosphere. The air quality and other benefits derived from our programs reduce environmental and health impacts. However, operating our system...
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