COLLABORATIVE CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING
The Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s Collaborative Climate Action Planning program reduces barriers to taking organizational climate action and results in an effective Climate Action Plan tailored to your organization.
The process creates a peer learning community in which to comfortably expand and deepen education around carbon mitigation, resiliency, and climate justice work. It is an opportunity, in the face of inevitable transformation of the energy sources and building standards of the City in the coming years, to be prepared, gain strategic advantage, save operating costs, reduce risk, protect assets, and avoid being out of compliance with emerging standards and regulations. By working as a team, participants share and leverage resources and strategies to achieve together what is often challenging for organizations working on their own.
Our Approach
User-Friendly Framework:
Meetings are designed to focus on the task at hand – giving Climate Action leads baseline knowledge, tools, templates, and peer support they can bring back to their organization. GRC provides the guidance, framework, and accountability that is key to maintaining momentum in change work in a format that is consistent with the City of Boston’s Climate Action Plan.
Engagement Focused:
Engagement starts with the development of a climate action plan. An engagement focused planning process will educate staff and customers, provide clarity and build trust, and create the buy-in needed for the successful implementation of the plan that is supported broadly across the organization.
Capacity Building:
Core to this work is educating and training participants with the goal to build the knowledge base and skill set for each organization that takes part. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the impacts of climate change and have the tools to facilitate organizational change that will be used during the development of the plan and beyond.
Curation of Best Practices and Tools:
Important tools and best practices already exist, but it can be hard to know where to start or what resources to use. The collaborative planning workbook is a curated and focused list of resources that will be used throughout the plan development.
Program Timeline
2021 - 2022 Graduates
