Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (left) and GBH President Susan Goldberg (right, photo courtesy Celeste Sloman)
The second annual Climate Beacon Conference, the region’s global climate change gathering, will be held at the Boston Society of Architects on Oct. 16-18.
The conference brings together corporate, municipal, institutional and community leaders, along with global and national experts and practitioners, to discuss strategies and resources that can propel climate crisis solutions into reality and chart paths to more sustainable, livable futures.
This year’s theme is “Charting the Course.”
Admission is complimentary for public-sector leaders, including municipal officials, as well as students, small nonprofits, and environmental justice or community organizations.
New this year is a Municipal Movers breakfast reception for local officials, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 17.
Also on Oct. 17, at 9:30, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will join GBH President Susan Goldberg for a “Harborside Chat” focused on the role of municipalities in charting the course to a more sustainable, livable future, and how local leaders balance the decisions they have to make every day.
This year’s Climate Beacon will focus on the following four tracks, all of which are critical to addressing climate change and helping Massachusetts achieve its climate goals and continuing to grow its global leadership:
• Building Better: Focused on designing and building the infrastructure and neighborhoods of the future and how to retrofit and modernize the current building stock
• Powering Better: Focused on how everyone benefits from scaling the clean, renewable energy the region needs, how that energy is used, and how these developments positively impact their surrounding environments
• Moving Better: Focused on how people get from place to place in cleaner, healthier, more modern ways
• Adapting Better: Focused on how communities better adapt to the impacts of climate change through natural solutions, smart community and economic choices, and environmental restoration
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey said, “Climate Beacon is working to build partnerships, empower stakeholders, and create the community we need to build our livable future.”