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Is there really the political will to take the action needed?

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now it's a graduation into how we collaborate, build partnerships, and really scaling our little projects and work

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aversion to answering the question - what are we good at?  Not sure we are doing anything well.

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aversion to answering the question - what are we good at?  Not sure we are doing anything well.

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People want immediate results and answers to this immense issue

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we don't all do outreach great, or have community trust and capacity

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we don't all do outreach great, or have community trust and capacity

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GHG Emissions Inventory time-suck for all of us

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GHG Emissions Inventory time-suck for all of us

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In Utah, we have an aversion to talking about things in terms of "all being in it together" (culturally more libertarian and emphasis on individualism).

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In Orlando we have an excellent relationship to partner on grants, technical assistance, and join each others working groups/committees.

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Stories from cities that are not as successful in confronting climate change. And how funding was not addressed.

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Stories from cities that are not as successful in confronting climate change. And how funding was not addressed.

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It is hard to truly reflect on where you are being ineffective and where your actions may not be the righ tactions

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It is hard to truly reflect on where you are being ineffective and where your actions may not be the righ tactions

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political will- especially new electeds who are climate delayers

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political will- especially new electeds who are climate delayers

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we need a bigger budget if sustainability is truly a value as councils state

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Equity says we need to go slower to be inclusive, but the crisis demands rapid action. The tension between the need for speed and the need for inclusivity can feel like all solutions are lacking...

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Financial disparities between communities and how that can impact capacity

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Financial disparities between communities and how that can impact capacity

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how does having to meet annual budget deadlines perpetuate ineqity/prevent equitable engagment and relationship building

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how does having to meet annual budget deadlines perpetuate ineqity/prevent equitable engagment and relationship building

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Why do electeds continue to underfund sustainability while giving it lip service?

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Why do electeds continue to underfund sustainability while giving it lip service?

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scary to talk about the future of our earth if we don't make progress

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scary to talk about the future of our earth if we don't make progress

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People were not answering clearly what other cities should be doing and what we need them to do.

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People were not answering clearly what other cities should be doing and what we need them to do.

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Lack of Trust from community, different relationships

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Lack of Trust from community, different relationships

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Communities that are open to equity but don't know how to put it into practice -- continuing to subsidize practices that are only open to the affluent

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None of us know for sure, but we all feel like we are not doing enough.

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What are we doing that may be ineffective?

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What are we doing that may be ineffective?

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We don't want to think that anything we're doing is ineffective!

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How we pose this challenge to our residents/businesses. Individual measures are so small. Don't want to put all that burden on individuals, mindful of how we utilize societal pressure on people. Want to be gentle to people. People should feel encouraged to what they can/what they feel good about.

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We are too far gone, it's pointless. Also, must. keep. working.

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Agree that inventories and reports and assessments are time consuming and take time before you can move to engagement when engagement more key.

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Agree that inventories and reports and assessments are time consuming and take time before you can move to engagement when engagement more key.

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GHG emissions inventories take so much time but aren't actually valuable. 

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GHG emissions inventories take so much time but aren't actually valuable. 

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How siloed city work is, the city won't address that

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Maybe the shaming/blaming convo should be directed at people making big decisions. (politicians, big corporations) rather than individuals (emphasis on individual action/responsibility)

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May need equity offices or dedicated job so there is accountability - something to explore

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Maybe we need training/education on how to scale work with multiple partners 

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Maybe we need training/education on how to scale work with multiple partners 

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Staff need a bigger budget and larger team to get the work done. Need more salary positions.

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Staff need a bigger budget and larger team to get the work done. Need more salary positions.

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Safe spaces to speak the truth without fear of political pressure or punishment - raise our collective voice about these truths

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Working in the constant urgency of now - you can remove the ego from it, decide to shed something or leave it behind
Maybe you can reframe the question - thinking about the intention behind where we're putting our energy and whether it is the right work to be doing it
Effectiveness is also rooted in many traits that are characteristic of a white supremacist work place!!

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Shift in focus to be systems and individual change (not primarily individual change)

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Shift in focus to be systems and individual change (not primarily individual change)

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creating career pipelines in the industry for young people of color

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creating career pipelines in the industry for young people of color

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How do we best do Climate Action Planning? Is a 2-year process still relevant or do we need something nimbler?

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How do we best do Climate Action Planning? Is a 2-year process still relevant or do we need something nimbler?

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How staff is navigating dysfunctional governments

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How staff is navigating dysfunctional governments

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Maybe it's too late already.

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Smaller things might have to wait. (recycling, bag bans etc.)

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Challenge in integrating climate and racial justice work is with folks with white privilege and power

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Challenge in integrating climate and racial justice work is with folks with white privilege and power

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Electeds: please stop listening to the loudest people (on the fringe right!) They are not climate experts.

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Electeds: please stop listening to the loudest people (on the fringe right!) They are not climate experts.

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Politics and not being able to talk about climate change and sustainability

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Politics and not being able to talk about climate change and sustainability

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Lessons about where real power exists in our org

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tear down outdated hierarchical networks

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tear down outdated hierarchical networks

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Cities need to be more adaptive

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Difficult to question using certain metrics when we're "locked in" to measuring success with them

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Difficult to question using certain metrics when we're "locked in" to measuring success with them

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being intentional about advancing climate professionals to positions of political leadership

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being intentional about advancing climate professionals to positions of political leadership

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Tired of being an adjunct of the Comms office, rather than fostering real change

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Tired of being an adjunct of the Comms office, rather than fostering real change

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It was challenging for cities to answer what to stop doing. We have a preference to keep doing more!

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We need someone (USDN?) to help make sense of the change and evolve the practice

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current structures (autonomous sustainability offices) and goals (Net Zero) my ineffective and/or misguided

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current structures (autonomous sustainability offices) and goals (Net Zero) my ineffective and/or misguided

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Mental health support for those working on these topics. All members discussed feeling emotionally drained doing this work.

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Racial equity is getting easier to talk about but what about the other elements of oppression in our history (and present) that reinforce racial inequity and climate change?

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are we doing enough?  are we spending "tax payer dollars" wisely with the small amount of work we can do?

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are we doing enough?  are we spending "tax payer dollars" wisely with the small amount of work we can do?

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What should our jurisdictions' roles be? How do we balance climate action with other (maybe more central to our mission) priorities? What if we want someone else (eg state/federal) to lead, but they're not leading?

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What should our jurisdictions' roles be? How do we balance climate action with other (maybe more central to our mission) priorities? What if we want someone else (eg state/federal) to lead, but they're not leading?

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Solutions need to be LOCAL - different everywhere. But we need the SCALE of regions/States for implementation and funding.

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Solutions need to be LOCAL - different everywhere. But we need the SCALE of regions/States for implementation and funding.

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We so discount future generations. Yes, investments need to happen now to benefit way more people later.

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We so discount future generations. Yes, investments need to happen now to benefit way more people later.

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avoid everything I don't understand or feel intimidated by...

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We have goals for halving emissions by 2030, but don't have the funding/power/utility$$ to actually move on impactful transitions, like deep energy retrofits of existing building stock

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scale beyond City, go upstream

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When less developed countries say we need to invest in them to mitigate climate change/ support adaptation, when we're still trying to attract needed investment here.

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Climate work feels so rife with criticism, it is hard to want to add to that, but appreciated a group member who reframed it as a chance to be introspective versus critical.

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Climate work feels so rife with criticism, it is hard to want to add to that, but appreciated a group member who reframed it as a chance to be introspective versus critical.

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Do we need a new approach to planning? Multiyear processes with med/long horizons don't reflect the dynamic and multi-crisis moment we are in.

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"Should we really be focusing our time and resources on X?"

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"Should we really be focusing our time and resources on X?"

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Political will is for projects that may not have the biggest impact on sustainability.

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Needs to be cheap and easy for all to do. Can't be individual or family focused but needs to connect to entire economy

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Needs to be cheap and easy for all to do. Can't be individual or family focused but needs to connect to entire economy

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island communities struggle with our reliance on importing most of our goods and the impacts that we know that is having but it is too hard to tackle at a local level

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island communities struggle with our reliance on importing most of our goods and the impacts that we know that is having but it is too hard to tackle at a local level

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Are people that work on sustainability doing everything they can personally to address climate change?

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What do we measure if not measuring GHG?

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What do we measure if not measuring GHG?

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asking for, demanding the resources we really need to meet the climate emergency challenge

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In climate circles and in our work, bringing up the subject of retreat or withdrawing development from climate-vulnerable areas is difficult

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How to bridge the gap between communities and environmental work

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How to bridge the gap between communities and environmental work

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We already talk a lot about bringing in communities, and we are already in a place where we acknowledge that there needs to be racial justice in our work. Would love to learn how people are doing that and where we need to bridge the gap specifically.

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the fundamental human evolution that needs to take place (our equity principles lean into that)

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Climate folks want to rid our city of fossil fuels. But we have a real issue with need for thermal energy and don't have solutions for that yet that are affordable.

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Climate folks want to rid our city of fossil fuels. But we have a real issue with need for thermal energy and don't have solutions for that yet that are affordable.

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Need to start really shifting resources to protecting communities from the impacts of climate change, which in a community with few resources means directing resources away from more traditional GHG reduction efforts. Acknowledging that there's only so much we can do on a local level to impact global emissions, but we can do a lot to protect our local community.

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youth voice - integrating youth into climate action is not the norm

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youth voice - integrating youth into climate action is not the norm

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Areas that industry needs to be involved because they have control

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Areas that industry needs to be involved because they have control

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On paper, job description says to be a change-maker. Elected officials and managers ask for bold change, but do not fund that change - and often are the most resistant to actually changing the way we do things (fear of rocking the boat). Sometimes it feels like we are more part of PR and comms for the City to share feel-good, one-off stories. We're encouraged to try new things only if they are free or save us money - that mindset won't change things at the scale we need.

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How do you do this when your audience (citizens) have high inequity? The audience and behaviours - and the implications of those - are so different.

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do climate emergency resolutions help at all?

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do climate emergency resolutions help at all?

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Equity across the community and organization. Even if smaller groups of individuals fully embrace this work and dialogue, many do not and yet we still need to keep working.

Additionally, having the political will to discuss the nexus of housing affordability/homelessness, development, and climate

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Stop one off projects and pilots as demonstration for "doing something"

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Stop one off projects and pilots as demonstration for "doing something"

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We need funds for this work. We don't have capacity to seek/manage/report on 18 million different potential pots of funding....

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We need funds for this work. We don't have capacity to seek/manage/report on 18 million different potential pots of funding....

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The change in investment and budget prioritizing required to address Climate Change as central to all other priorities.

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The change in investment and budget prioritizing required to address Climate Change as central to all other priorities.

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we really seem to shy away from incorporating public health into climate action

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we really seem to shy away from incorporating public health into climate action

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can we actually do what we have in our amazing CAPs? (staff capacity, budget, etc.)

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can we actually do what we have in our amazing CAPs? (staff capacity, budget, etc.)

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Electeds, stop thinking of environmental work as recycling and "personal responsibility" to pick up trash... learn more- talk to experts. Take on the big decisions.

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Electeds, stop thinking of environmental work as recycling and "personal responsibility" to pick up trash... learn more- talk to experts. Take on the big decisions.