Accelerating Climate Resilience: From Planning to Implementation

Sunday, April 2, 2023

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM CDT

Location: 119A

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Division Endorsement: Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division, Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning

Moderator and Speaker(s)

Van H. Du

Senior Environmental Planner
Boston, MA

Speaker(s)

Darya Mattes, MA (she/her/hers)

Resilience Manager
North Suffolk Office of Resilience and Sustainability , Massachusetts
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Sophie Gordon (she/her/hers)

Emergency Preparedness Buddies program coordinator
Town of Brookline
Brookline, Massachusetts
Orion Kriegman, MPP / UP (he/him/his)

Executive Director
Boston Food Forest Coalition
Boston, Massachusetts
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Marcia Manong (she/her/hers)

Panel Speaker
Malden River Works
Malden, Massachusetts

Since 2019, through the Accelerating Climate Resilience (ACR) program, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council has offered much-needed local support and resources to communities in Metro Boston to pilot and advance their climate resilience projects. These range from capacity building and technical assistance to small-scale construction.

The ACR program has two components: competitive grant making that awards implementation of innovative climate-resilience solutions, and a complementary Resilience Community of Practice (RCOP) that supports grantees with peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and broadens public understanding of climate-resilience successes.

This presentation highlights the ACR program’s success in advancing climate equity and social cohesion and its experiences and lessons learned from implementing climate innovations and solutions. Presenters describe the power of RCOP in fostering regional collaborations through collective learning on replicability and implementing climate-resilience practices across different municipal functions and sectors.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Deploy, replicate, and amplify long-term climate-resilience practices across municipal functions.
Consider different engagement approaches to center equity in project implementation and build greater social resilience and cohesion.
Create a space for collective learning and deployment of climate solutions through community innovations and regional collaborations.