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The Climate Mobilization: Leading with Vision: Imagining a Climate Positive and Resilient MoCo by 2030
July 14, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
How does a County of 1 million+ residents go Climate Positive in a decade?
This is the challenge that Montgomery County, MD, effectively set itself in the Emergency Climate Mobilization Resolution (December 2017). And how does the County do this in ways that overcome social and racial injustices? What should guide the County in strengthening the resilience of our communities and ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense risks and shocks triggered by dangerous climate change?
Join The Climate Mobilization MoCo for our next webinar
Leading with Vision: Imagining a Climate Positive and Resilient MoCo by 2030
Tuesday, July 14 • 7:30 to 8:45 pm
Our proposition is that vision must guide form and function. We urge Montgomery County to frame the developing (Emergency) Climate Action and Resilience Plan with a vision that is created through active engagement with diverse groups across the County. A successful plan will significantly affect funding and investments in many of our communities. We need a compelling vision if we are to mobilize residents, businesses, unions, civic associations and legislators to rise to the task ahead.
Herb Simmens, author of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future, will present a climate vision – prepared with the assistance of many in the climate community – for how the County can become Climate Positive in a decade while enhancing the well-being of county residents. Representatives from different stakeholder groups will respond, and share their thoughts on the vision for the E-CARP.
We urge you to read the vision, and believe you will find it of real value in imagining what a transformative future for our county might look like. We intend to share this discussion with the County, and ask you to join us in demanding a vision-led plan.
This webinar is the second in TCM MoCo’s Emergency Climate and Resilience Action series. Over the coming months the series will focus on key issues that the county climate planning process should address. The next webinar in the series will focus on social and racial justice and climate planning. Please register here. You will receive a zoom link to join the webinar.
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