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Inspiring Climate Action: Prioritizing and Funding Decarbonization Measures

Inspiring Climate Action: Prioritizing and Funding Decarbonization Measures

Deputy climate chiefs from the Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience highlight opportunities for engagement in the development of the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan and provide an update on federal tax credits available to communities for clean energy investments. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Jan 29, 2025
Inspiring Climate Action: Understanding Electric Vehicles and Funding Opportunities

Inspiring Climate Action: Understanding Electric Vehicles and Funding Opportunities

This webinar discusses state incentives and federal funding options for electric and low-emission vehicles, policy considerations, and how to leverage the MassEVIP program. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 07, 2024
Inspiring Climate Action: Financing Geothermal Projects

Inspiring Climate Action: Financing Geothermal Projects

This webinar reviews funding and financial incentives available for geothermal projects through the Federal Inflation Reduction Act. Recommended audience: All members
Capital PlanningWebinarfreePublication Date: Jul 23, 2024
Inspiring Climate Action: Funding Decarbonization and Navigating Energy Codes

Inspiring Climate Action: Funding Decarbonization and Navigating Energy Codes

This webinar explores funding opportunities available to municipalities to support decarbonization efforts and shares strategies for applying to the new Climate Leader Communities Program. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 25, 2024
Inspiring Climate Action: Effective Community Engagement

Inspiring Climate Action: Effective Community Engagement

This webinar reviews best practices for engaging different populations in climate planning and adapting to community needs, as well as re-evaluating the effectiveness of efforts over time. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Apr 30, 2024
Inspiring Climate Action: From Planning to Practice

Inspiring Climate Action: From Planning to Practice

This webinar showcases various approaches to climate action planning and discusses how these plans can help communities garner public support, prepare for funding, and unify departments and committees working toward common goals. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Apr 18, 2024
Elective Pay Under the Inflation Reduction Act presentation

Elective Pay Under the Inflation Reduction Act presentation

Presented by Jonathan Schrag, Deputy Chief of Climate and Director of Investment for Decarbonization and Resilience, Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience to a joint meeting of the MMA Policy Committee on Energy and the Environment and MMA Policy Committee on Public Works, Transportation and Public Utilities on April 1, 2024.
Climate ChangePresentationpdf - 741 KBPublication Date: Apr 10, 2024
Inspiring Climate Action: A Fireside Chat with Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer

Inspiring Climate Action: A Fireside Chat with Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer

This webinar discusses the municipal role in addressing climate change and why climate action is so urgently needed at the local, state and federal levels. Recommended audience: All members
Climate ChangeWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 26, 2024
A Clean Energy and Climate Guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

A Clean Energy and Climate Guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

Prepared by the Office of Senator Ed Markey, updated March 2024
Climate ChangeGuidancepdf - 886 KBPublication Date: Mar 01, 2024
Recommendations of the Climate Chief: Pursuant to Section 3(b) of Executive Order No. 604

Recommendations of the Climate Chief: Pursuant to Section 3(b) of Executive Order No. 604

Released by the Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience/Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 47 MBPublication Date: Oct 25, 2023
ResilientMass Plan: 2023 Massachusetts State Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Plan

ResilientMass Plan: 2023 Massachusetts State Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Plan

Released by The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 24 MBPublication Date: Oct 11, 2023
Municipal Guide to Inclusive Climate Action and Equitable Procurement

Municipal Guide to Inclusive Climate Action and Equitable Procurement

Published by the Northeast Clean Energy Council on Oct. 3, 2023
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 1 MBPublication Date: Oct 03, 2023
Clean Energy & Climate: Guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

Clean Energy & Climate: Guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

Prepared by the Office of Sen. Edward Markey, April 2023
Climate ChangeGuidancepdf - 5 MBPublication Date: Apr 01, 2023
2022 Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment, Vol. 2, Statewide Report

2022 Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment, Vol. 2, Statewide Report

Released by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 5 MBPublication Date: Dec 22, 2022
The Effects of Weather on Massachusetts Municipal Expenditures: Implications of Climate Change for Local Governments in New England

The Effects of Weather on Massachusetts Municipal Expenditures: Implications of Climate Change for Local Governments in New England

Published by the New England Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 6 MBPublication Date: Dec 19, 2022
Renewable Communities 2022: Massachusetts cities and towns leading the way to 100% renewable energy

Renewable Communities 2022: Massachusetts cities and towns leading the way to 100% renewable energy

Released by Environment Massachusetts Research & Policy Center
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 7 MBPublication Date: Aug 10, 2022
Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030

Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030

Published by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 4 MBPublication Date: Jun 29, 2022
Building Climate Resilience in Cities Through Insurance

Building Climate Resilience in Cities Through Insurance

Published by Climate Policy Initiative
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 9 MBPublication Date: Sep 01, 2021
Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness: Tools and Tales

Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness: Tools and Tales

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Attendees learned how communities are using their MVP action grants on transformative climate resilience projects, from dam removal and culvert replacement to heat mapping and infrastructure risk assessments.
Climate ChangeWebinarPublication Date: Feb 10, 2022
Climate Resilience: A Survey of Massachusetts Municipalities

Climate Resilience: A Survey of Massachusetts Municipalities

Released by the University of Massachusetts Northeast Center for Coastal Resilience
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 12 MBPublication Date: Nov 04, 2021
Renewable Communities 2021: Massachusetts Cities and Towns Leading the Way to 100% Renewable Energy

Renewable Communities 2021: Massachusetts Cities and Towns Leading the Way to 100% Renewable Energy

Published by Environment Massachusetts Research & Policy Center
Climate ChangeReportpdf - 8 MBPublication Date: Aug 01, 2021
Statewide Network Thinks Globally and Acts Locally to Battle Climate Change

Statewide Network Thinks Globally and Acts Locally to Battle Climate Change

By Sarah Dooling, executive director of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network, and Carol Oldham, former executive director of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 4 MB
Thousands of North Shore Structures Threatened by Flooding Within 10 Years, Report Finds

Thousands of North Shore Structures Threatened by Flooding Within 10 Years, Report Finds

By John Ouellette, MMA’s Manager of Publications and Digital Communications, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 4 MB
MVP: Preparing the Commonwealth’s Communities for Climate Change

MVP: Preparing the Commonwealth’s Communities for Climate Change

By David Ismay, Undersecretary of Climate Change at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 4 MB
Law: Municipal Adaptations, Collaborations Are Key to Community Resilience

Law: Municipal Adaptations, Collaborations Are Key to Community Resilience

By Katherine Garrahan, real estate and permitting partner at Bowditch & Dewey LLP and immediate past chair of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 217 KB
Municipalities on the Frontline of Climate Change: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Resiliency

Municipalities on the Frontline of Climate Change: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Resiliency

By Moneer Azzam, principal of Beacon Climate Innovations and the founder and former CEO of SolarOne Solutions, and Julie Smith-Galvin, founder and owner of JSG Communications and Vice Chair of the Wakefield Town Council, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 2 MB
Especially Vulnerable Cape Towns Act Regionally on Climate Change

Especially Vulnerable Cape Towns Act Regionally on Climate Change

By Lisa Capone, freelance writer, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
Climate ChangeArticlepdf - 2 MB
Watershed Associations: A Great Resource for Supporting Community Climate Adaptation

Watershed Associations: A Great Resource for Supporting Community Climate Adaptation

Presentation by Julie Dyer Wood, deputy director of the Charles River Watershed Association, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Climate ChangePresentationpdf - 10 MB
Climate Change and the Commonwealth

Climate Change and the Commonwealth

Presentation by Mia Mansfield, director of Climate Adaptation and Resilience for the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Climate ChangePresentationpdf - 3 MB
Armory Village Green Infrastructure Project: Millbury's Response to a Changing Climate

Armory Village Green Infrastructure Project: Millbury's Response to a Changing Climate

Presentation by Laurie Connors, planning director in Millbury, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Climate ChangePresentationpdf - 5 MB
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