Due to the 20-40-15 initiative she spearheaded, former Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens was awarded an honorable mention for the 2011 Mayors' Climate Protection Awards, an initiative sponsored by The U.S. Conference of Mayors.

In 2012, Eden Prairie won the MyWaterPledge.com-sponsored “Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation" for the Midwest region, versus other cities in the 30,001–100,000 population category, and the City continues participating in the challenge annually.

Eden Prairie has received both Step 4 and Step 5 recognition — the highest level of achievement — nine consecutive years in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program. Learn more about Eden Prairie's GreenStep Cities accomplishments.

The City of Eden Prairie has achieved the Gold designation from the national SolSmart program for making it faster, easier and more affordable for homes and businesses to go solar. This designation recognizes Eden Prairie for taking bold steps to encourage solar energy growth and remove obstacles to solar development.

The 2020 American Public Works Association – MN Chapter Environmental Stewardship Award was given to the City of Eden Prairie for its Sustainable Eden Prairie program. The annual award is given to an individual or organization which has shown a sustained effort demonstrating a commitment to environmental conservation or protection. The project must be of benefit to the community and the environment, and take into consideration cost-effectiveness, long-term operation and maintenance.

Eden Prairie received the 2025 Best of B3 Benchmarking Award for its leadership in sustainable building and energy efficiency across multiple City facilities which led to reducing its benchmark ratio — an indicator of improved energy efficiency — by over 14% from the previous year.

Sustainable Eden Prairie Award

Since 2017, the City has recognized significant and innovative investments made that contribute to the overall sustainability of the community with the Sustainable Eden Prairie Award program. Each year, there are award winners based on the four award categories — energy, landscape, waste and water — which represent the focus areas of Sustainable Eden Prairie.

In June 2017, former Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens joined the Climate Mayors — also known as Mayors National Climate Action Agenda — a network of several hundred U.S. mayors representing tens of millions of their constituents. Climate Mayors are working together to strengthen local efforts for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting efforts for binding federal and global-level policymaking.

As a result of Mayor Tyra-Lukens' commitment to Climate Mayors, the Eden Prairie City Council adopted a resolution supporting the Paris Agreement July 11, 2017.

In March 2018, Mayor Tyra-Lukens joined a bipartisan group of 180 U.S. mayors, representing cities large and small in 42 states, to speak out in support of solar energy. The mayors resolved to make solar power a key element of their communities' energy plans and called on others to embrace clean energy from the sun. Mayor Ron Case continues in these efforts.

Eden Prairie also participates in Earth Hour – the world’s largest public action to stand in solidarity for the protection of our planet – by going dark with the clocks on Eden Prairie's iconic water tower for one hour each year.

Eden Prairie exceeded its 20-40-15 goals – energy efficiency in City facilities increased by 21.8% and the fuel efficiency of the City's vehicle fleet increased by 44.4% by year-end 2015.

Building upon this success, the City launched Sustainable Eden Prairie, an ongoing effort focusing on education and implementation of sustainable practices to protect the environment and natural resources our community enjoys.

Eden Prairie's Energy Action Plan addressed both short- and long-term energy goals and was the first large-scale Sustainable Eden Prairie initiative. The plan prioritized three focus areas to promote electricity and natural gas conservation — residential, large commercial and industrial buildings, and public, nonprofit and service organizations.

The City is also part of the Regional Indicators Initiative, which measures annual performance metrics for 23 Minnesota cities committed to increasing their overall efficiency and level of sustainability.

In July 2018, the City Council adopted a resolution expressing commitment to work with the youth of Eden Prairie to combat climate change as part of the Energy Action Plan. The resolution indicated the City and youth would further these actions together, and work toward a proposed goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Eden Prairie's Climate Action Plan was introduced in February 2020, with a goal of achieving community-wide carbon neutrality by 2050.

In January 2022, the City Council joined cities and counties across the state of Minnesota in signing a Climate Emergency Proclamation [PDF], urging the state and federal governments to provide leadership and funding to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change