Working group facilitation and community engagement inform recommendations to City Council
The Client: City of Longmont
The Challenge: In response to passing a climate emergency resolution, the City of Longmont needed to quickly develop community-informed, equitable climate action recommendations.
Our Approach: To support this work, IBE structured and managed the process for developing and reviewing recommendations for the Climate Action Task Force and Just Transitions Plan Committee, leading to group consensus on recommendations presented to Longmont City Council. IBE supported the Just Transitions Plan Committee in defining equitable climate action and in creating and applying an equity lens to recommendations proposed by the Task Force. In addition to facilitating the two community groups, IBE developed and analyzed a community climate opinion survey, and led community engagement activities in Spanish and English, often with live translation.
The Outcomes: The collaborative, community-informed work revealed opportunities, barriers, and blind spots that helped to improve the recommendations ultimately proposed by the Task Force.
Key Outcomes
- Working group consensus on climate action recommendations
Increased capability to approach equity and just transitions for future civic policies and activities - Capacity building around civic engagement for members of historically underrepresented communities
- Community awareness, engagement, and insights related to equitable climate action
Project Deliverables
- Equitable Climate Action Recommendations Report
- Equity Lens Framework for future equity and inclusion engagement
- Community questionnaire instrument
- Data analysis
