Climate Equity Working Group

At A Glance

Location: 

New Haven, Connecticut

Primary Issue Area:

  • Climate Change & Energy

Active since:

2016

Core volunteers:

13

Community Size:

130,000

Our Purpose

The Climate Equity Working Group aims to serve as a brain-trust for equitably engaging all New Haven communities in shaping and implementing the City government's Climate & Sustainability Framework (a municipal climate-action plan). Our Group convenes community activists, organizers, and environmental educators -- predominantly people of color -- to develop tactics for educating and organizing those communities that historically marginalized from policy-making: low- and middle-income communities of color.