Local Climate Action Planning

Mainstreaming Climate in the Classroom: Teaching Climate Change Planning

“…The design and policy choices involved have been well laid out in several recent planning books that link urban form and mitigation (Lerch, 2008;Newman et al, 2009;Condon, 2010;Calthorpe, 2011). Methods for municipal greenhouse gas accounting and related climate action planning are complex and technical, but are also rapidly being standardized (Boswell et al, 2012).…”

“…Climate change has been recognized as an important and valid aspect of planning practice, if one judges by the plethora of relatively new books on cities and climate change (Roaf et al, 2005;Ruth, 2006;Girardet, 2008;Lerch, 2008Bicknell et al, 2009Davoudi et al, 2009;Newman et al, 2009;Schipper and Burton, 2009;Calthorpe, 2011;Boswell et al, 2012;Stone, 2012), special planning journal volumes (e.g. Blanco et al, 2009b;Crane & Landis, 2010), and scholarly research and debate (see Betsill & Bulkeley, 2007;Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2009;Blanco et al, 2009a;Wheeler et al, 2009 for reviews of the field) or, perhaps more importantly, the growing body of local climate change plans (Wheeler, 2008;Bassett & Shandas, 2010).…”

A Carbon-Neutral California: Social Ecology and Prospects for 2050 GHG Reduction

“…However, none of these countries is anywhere near carbon neutrality. Others such as Bulkeley (2013), Boswell, Greve and Seale (2012), and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI, 2017) discuss more modest and achievable policies at the local government level to reach short-term goals. Yet these are unlikely to produce the necessary level of long-term change.…”

Policy and Practice Audit and GHG Reduction Strategy Recommendations for the City of Arroyo Grande

“…Regardless, evaluating current City plans and policies is an important first step in preparing to complete a CAP. Although the ICLEI Milestones do not include a policy audit, it is one of "several embedded or additional steps that are critical to the CAP process" (Boswell, Greve, & Seale 2012). Boswell, Greve, and Seale break down the CAP process into three steps, Phase I: Preliminary Activities, Phase II CAP Development, and Phase III, Implementation and monitoring.…”

“…Although strategies for preparing CAPs vary, most cities that have prepared a CAP have followed ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection Milestone Guide (Boswell, Greve, & Seale, 2012). The guide consists of five milestones:…”