Foreword Introduction 1. Cities and Climate Resilience (NYC Office of Sustainability) 2. Communities: Teaming with Companies, Cities, States, Academia (The RAFT) 3. Climate Change and National Security: Opportunities for Learning and Cooperation (US Military) 4. Equity (Climate Justice in Detroit) 5. Business: Building Climate-resilient Supply Chains (IBM Supply Chain) 6. Regional Deals, International Players (RGGI) Conclusion
Ann Goodman, PhD, is Faculty Affiliate in the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Environmental Sciences Initiative, with 30 years of international leadership at the intersection of business, finance, sustainability, climate, risk, resilience, as for- and nonprofit executive, entrepreneur, communicator, author, and educator.
Nilda Mesa is Visiting Lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs, SciencesPo, and Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She serves on the Board of Directors of United Therapeutics. Mesa is the former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and served in senior environmental roles at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Pentagon, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
"This inspiring book points the way to a new kind of governance:
collaborative, problem-solving, creative, and long-term oriented.
Climate change is a complex crisis requiring deep and sustained
changes across society – in how we produce and use energy, protect
nature, adapt to environmental stresses, and ensure social justice.
As described in the inspiring case studies, stakeholders across
society are joining together to chart the way ahead. This book
gives hope, guidance, and direction for the future." - Jeffrey D.
Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia
University President, United Nations Sustainable Development
Solutions Network, author of The Age of Sustainable
Development"This book will be a must read for anyone working on
climate resilience, providing criticalinsights into how to achieve
our climate goals and preserve our communities, usingcollaboration
and partnerships as key tools. Through practical case studies, the
authors take the reader into key communities, from New York City to
the West Point Military Academy, that are tackling their climate
challenges, through collaboration, shared decision-making, and
smart use of big data."- Sherri Goodman, Former Deputy
Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security),
Secretary-General, International Military Council on Climate &
Security"As I've observed over and over again in my career working
with diverse entities--government, companies, nonprofit
organizations--it can be a daunting task to resolve differences on
a clean economy in the face of climate change. This book offers
superb examples of real-life parties who accomplished this
essential feat to save the planet." - Jigar Shah, Founder of
SunEdison, co-Founder of Generate Capital, author of Creating
Climate Wealth"This book comes at a moment of consensus among
advocates that therewill not be effective climate policies until
diverse stakeholders seek alignment on climate issues where they
can, and also acknowledge their conflicting views and remedies.
Collaboration is the watchword and Mesa and Goodman offer a guide
to how untraditional partners have convened to achieve beneficial
climate objectives." - Peggy M. Shepard, executive director,
co-founder, WE ACT For Environmental Justice"Climate change has
been politically divisive at the national level, but solving this
existential threat will require cooperation across multiple sectors
of society at every level. This book by two experienced
practitioners skillfully recounts remarkable examples where this
cooperation has been achieved to the benefit of all. It will be an
inspiration and a toolkit for those who are yearning for
solutions." - Michael Gerrard, Professor and Director, Sabin Center
for Climate Change Law, Columbia University"Planning for resilience
in the face of climate change requires planners to simultaneously
work across disciplines and at multiple layers of community, city,
and region. It challenges planners to respond in new ways and
collaborate outside traditional formulas. This book shows, through
case studies of both public and private initiatives, how we can
achieve better outcomes and face up to this generational threat.
Their lessons have broad applications, and should be incorporated
in every plan to create more resilient communities."- Tom Wright,
President, Regional Plan Association"The only possible path for
successfully stopping the impending catastrophe of climate change
is through a coordinated and united effort that includes
institutions from local governments and businesses to organizations
that have the power to influence global policy. Ann Goodman and
Nilda Mesa’s new volume, "Collaborating for Climate Resilience,"
expertly details the kind of reality-based collaborative approaches
that marshal the science, resources and human will that are our
best hope for meeting this still neglected challenge." - Professor
David Rosenberg, Director, Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity,
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New
York (CUNY)"The war against climate change will be fought on many
fronts by armies of stakeholders drawn from all sectors of society
as this book illustrates in providing examples of successful
victories built on collaboration and cooperation among a range of
public and private sector players from local to national levels –
it's a must read for the decade to come." - Eugenie L. Birch FAICP,
Nussdorf Professor and co Director, Penn Institute for Urban
Research, University of Pennsylvania "At this moment of deep
political division and mistrust, Nilda Mesa and Ann Goodman provide
a different and hopeful path: cooperation and collaboration as the
essential route to community resilience in the face of climate
change. Mesa and Goodman provide a handbook for everyone who cares
about the way forward." - Ken Alex, director, Project Climate at UC
Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & Environment, former senior
policy advisor, CA Governor Jerry Brown"The sense of urgency and
scale of the climate crisis can be paralyzing, especially in light
of the impacts from the pandemic. This timely book helps clarify
how we can all work collaboratively to make the transformation
toward climate resilience that is urgently needed. The authors have
assembled climate resilience case studies demonstrating the power
of collaboration in a wide variety of scales, multiple perspectives
and topics. The common lessons learned of seeking aligned values,
collaboration, adaptability and accountability will resonate for
anyone committed to a climate resilient future." - Mary Ann
Lazarus, FAIA LEED Fellow, Architect and Consultant, Cameron
MacAllister GroupSustainability Program Coordinator, University
College Washington University in St. Louis"Every urban planner in
America should read this book." - Maxine Griffith, College of
Fellows - American Institute of Certified Planners, Principal,
Griffith Planning and Design, former Assistant Deputy Secretary US
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, former Executive Director,
Philadelphia City Planning Commission and Deputy Mayor"Mesa and
Goodman do an amazing job of spotlighting the evolution of state
and local government, not for profits and business to identify and
implement climate solutions that provide both economic and social
benefit at the local level, which have positive implications at the
global level." - Ann Davlin, Director of Strategy, Dynamhex, former
director of development, Carbon War Room"There is extraordinary
value in gathering emerging models and recognizing new systems that
are critical in achieving long-term climate adaptation. This
publication, Collaborating for Climate Change, assembles those
emerging models as artifacts, proven structures, for further
examination and potential replicating across the globe.
Collaboration is key to creating a sustainable resilient future." -
Illya Azaroff, FAIA, Global Director Resilient strategies +LAB
Architect PLLC., Founding Co-Chair Design for Risk and
Reconstruction AIA New York, Associate Professor New York City
College of Technology"Libraries are filled with books addressing
the question of "what" to do to improve climate resilience. Rarer
are books that tell us "how". Nilda Mesa and Ann Goodman’s
Collaborating for Climate Resilience fills that critical void.
Through organizational case studies they show us how government,
business and civil society have effectively collaborated to address
this urgent global challenge." - Elliott Sclar, Special Research
Scholar & Co-Director , Center for Sustainable Urban Development,
Earth Institute, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University"Collaborating for Climate Resilience takes on an aspect
of the climate problem that doesn’t generate many headlines, but
that is absolutely critical: how diverse organizations can
effectively work together to adapt. It compiles case studies from
state and local government, the military, and the private sector,
analyzes both successes and failures, and draws instructive lessons
for future climate leaders." - Adam Sobel, Professor, Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics and Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University
"This inspiring book points the way to a new kind of governance:
collaborative, problem-solving, creative, and long-term oriented.
Climate change is a complex crisis requiring deep and sustained
changes across society – in how we produce and use energy, protect
nature, adapt to environmental stresses, and ensure social justice.
As described in the inspiring case studies, stakeholders across
society are joining together to chart the way ahead. This book
gives hope, guidance, and direction for the future." - Jeffrey D.
Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia
University President, United Nations Sustainable Development
Solutions Network, author of The Age of Sustainable
Development"This book will be a must read for anyone working on
climate resilience, providing critical insights into how to achieve
our climate goals and preserve our communities, using collaboration
and partnerships as key tools. Through practical case studies, the
authors take the reader into key communities, from New York City to
the West Point Military Academy, that are tackling their climate
challenges, through collaboration, shared decision-making, and
smart use of big data."- Sherri Goodman, Former Deputy
Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security),
Secretary-General, International Military Council on Climate &
Security"As I've observed over and over again in my career working
with diverse entities--government, companies, nonprofit
organizations--it can be a daunting task to resolve differences on
a clean economy in the face of climate change. This book offers
superb examples of real-life parties who accomplished this
essential feat to save the planet." - Jigar Shah, Founder of
SunEdison, co-Founder of Generate Capital, author of Creating
Climate Wealth"This book comes at a moment of consensus among
advocates that there will not be effective climate policies until
diverse stakeholders seek alignment on climate issues where they
can, and also acknowledge their conflicting views and remedies.
Collaboration is the watchword and Mesa and Goodman offer a guide
to how untraditional partners have convened to achieve beneficial
climate objectives." - Peggy M. Shepard, executive director,
co-founder, WE ACT For Environmental Justice"Climate change has
been politically divisive at the national level, but solving this
existential threat will require cooperation across multiple sectors
of society at every level. This book by two experienced
practitioners skillfully recounts remarkable examples where this
cooperation has been achieved to the benefit of all. It will be an
inspiration and a toolkit for those who are yearning for
solutions." - Michael Gerrard, Professor and Director, Sabin Center
for Climate Change Law, Columbia University"Planning for resilience
in the face of climate change requires planners to simultaneously
work across disciplines and at multiple layers of community, city,
and region. It challenges planners to respond in new ways and
collaborate outside traditional formulas. This book shows, through
case studies of both public and private initiatives, how we can
achieve better outcomes and face up to this generational threat.
Their lessons have broad applications, and should be incorporated
in every plan to create more resilient communities."- Tom Wright,
President, Regional Plan Association"The only possible path for
successfully stopping the impending catastrophe of climate change
is through a coordinated and united effort that includes
institutions from local governments and businesses to organizations
that have the power to influence global policy. Ann Goodman and
Nilda Mesa’s new volume, "Collaborating for Climate Resilience,"
expertly details the kind of reality-based collaborative approaches
that marshal the science, resources and human will that are our
best hope for meeting this still neglected challenge." - Professor
David Rosenberg, Director, Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity,
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New
York (CUNY)"The war against climate change will be fought on many
fronts by armies of stakeholders drawn from all sectors of society
as this book illustrates in providing examples of successful
victories built on collaboration and cooperation among a range of
public and private sector players from local to national levels –
it's a must read for the decade to come." - Eugenie L. Birch FAICP,
Nussdorf Professor and co Director, Penn Institute for Urban
Research, University of Pennsylvania "At this moment of deep
political division and mistrust, Nilda Mesa and Ann Goodman provide
a different and hopeful path: cooperation and collaboration as the
essential route to community resilience in the face of climate
change. Mesa and Goodman provide a handbook for everyone who cares
about the way forward." - Ken Alex, director, Project Climate at UC
Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & Environment, former senior
policy advisor, CA Governor Jerry Brown"The sense of urgency and
scale of the climate crisis can be paralyzing, especially in light
of the impacts from the pandemic. This timely book helps clarify
how we can all work collaboratively to make the transformation
toward climate resilience that is urgently needed. The authors have
assembled climate resilience case studies demonstrating the power
of collaboration in a wide variety of scales, multiple perspectives
and topics. The common lessons learned of seeking aligned values,
collaboration, adaptability and accountability will resonate for
anyone committed to a climate resilient future." - Mary Ann
Lazarus, FAIA LEED Fellow, Architect and Consultant, Cameron
MacAllister Group Sustainability Program Coordinator, University
College Washington University in St. Louis"Every urban planner in
America should read this book." - Maxine Griffith, College of
Fellows - American Institute of Certified Planners, Principal,
Griffith Planning and Design, former Assistant Deputy Secretary US
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, former Executive Director,
Philadelphia City Planning Commission and Deputy Mayor"Mesa and
Goodman do an amazing job of spotlighting the evolution of state
and local government, not for profits and business to identify and
implement climate solutions that provide both economic and social
benefit at the local level, which have positive implications at the
global level." - Ann Davlin, Director of Strategy, Dynamhex, former
director of development, Carbon War Room"There is extraordinary
value in gathering emerging models and recognizing new systems that
are critical in achieving long-term climate adaptation. This
publication, Collaborating for Climate Change, assembles those
emerging models as artifacts, proven structures, for further
examination and potential replicating across the globe.
Collaboration is key to creating a sustainable resilient future." -
Illya Azaroff, FAIA, Global Director Resilient strategies +LAB
Architect PLLC., Founding Co-Chair Design for Risk and
Reconstruction AIA New York, Associate Professor New York City
College of Technology"Libraries are filled with books addressing
the question of "what" to do to improve climate resilience. Rarer
are books that tell us "how". Nilda Mesa and Ann Goodman’s
Collaborating for Climate Resilience fills that critical void.
Through organizational case studies they show us how government,
business and civil society have effectively collaborated to address
this urgent global challenge." - Elliott Sclar, Special Research
Scholar & Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development,
Earth Institute, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University"Collaborating for Climate Resilience takes on an aspect
of the climate problem that doesn’t generate many headlines, but
that is absolutely critical: how diverse organizations can
effectively work together to adapt. It compiles case studies from
state and local government, the military, and the private sector,
analyzes both successes and failures, and draws instructive lessons
for future climate leaders." - Adam Sobel, Professor, Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics and Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University
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