Collaboration and Climate Action at the Local Scale

Presentation Abstract

King County Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) has partnered with Climate Solutions’ New Energy Cities program to help the region implement actions towards shared and ambitious climate targets. Against a baseline of 2007 emissions, the new Growth Management Planning Council policy targets a reduction of countywide sources of greenhouse gas emissions of 25 percent by 2020, 50 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

Through the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C), county and city staff are partnering on:

  • Outreach – to develop, refine, and utilize messaging and tools for climate change outreach to engage decision makers, other cities, and the general public
  • Coordination – to adopt consistent standards, benchmarks, strategies, and overall goals related to responding to climate change
  • Solutions – to share local success stories, challenges, data and products that support and enhance climate mitigation efforts by all partners
  • Funding and resources – to secure grant funding and other shared resource opportunities to support climate related projects and programs

Session Title

Upping the Action: Regional Climate Change Abatement

Conference Track

Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

Conference Name

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Document Type

Event

Start Date

2016 12:00 AM

End Date

2016 12:00 AM

Location

2016SSEC

Type of Presentation

Oral

Genre/Form

conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)

Contributing Repository

Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

Subjects – Topical (LCSH)

Climate change mitigation--Washington (State); Urban ecology (Sociology)

Geographic Coverage

Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Washington (State)--Environmental conditions

Comments

http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/climate/other-governments/climate-pledge.aspx

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Language

English

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Collaboration and Climate Action at the Local Scale

2016SSEC

King County Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) has partnered with Climate Solutions’ New Energy Cities program to help the region implement actions towards shared and ambitious climate targets. Against a baseline of 2007 emissions, the new Growth Management Planning Council policy targets a reduction of countywide sources of greenhouse gas emissions of 25 percent by 2020, 50 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

Through the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C), county and city staff are partnering on:

  • Outreach – to develop, refine, and utilize messaging and tools for climate change outreach to engage decision makers, other cities, and the general public
  • Coordination – to adopt consistent standards, benchmarks, strategies, and overall goals related to responding to climate change
  • Solutions – to share local success stories, challenges, data and products that support and enhance climate mitigation efforts by all partners
  • Funding and resources – to secure grant funding and other shared resource opportunities to support climate related projects and programs