Somerville Climate Forward – Comprehensive Climate Change Plan

Somerville Climate Forward, Somerville’s first comprehensive climate change plan, is a set of implementable actions that will reduce Somerville’s contribution to climate change and prepare the City for the unavoidable impacts of climate change.his plan includes policies, programs, and strategies that work to accomplish the following:contribution to climate change and prepare the City for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. This plan includes policies, programs, and strategies that work to accomplish the following:

• Reduce Somerville’s contribution to climate change and work towards carbon neutrality (mitigation)
• Prepare Somerville for the unavoidable impacts of climate change (adaptation)
• Fairly distribute the opportunities created by climate action and work to alleviate the unequal burdens of climate change (equity)

JSI assisted the City of Somerville in developing strategies in the plan for A Healthy and Resilient Community and for A Culture of Action as a public health and climate change adaptation and resiliency expert matter consultant to Kleinfelder, Inc.