Greater KC Metro Chamber Partners with Local Officials to form Metro KC Climate Action Coalition
The Greater Kansas City Metro Chamber and partners
come together
to create a comprehensive plan
addressing climate change in the Kansas City area
The Metro KC Climate Action Coalition, formed in January, 2019, is a broad stakeholder coalition of elected officials, the Greater Kansas City Metro Chamber, and other local partners that came together to begin working on a comprehensive, local effort to address climate change in the surrounding Kansas City area.
The four priorities of the coalition are to:
Draft a regional climate action plan
Develop a state legislative platform for climate action
Create a policy playbook for of solutions that can be implemented by municipal elected leaders
Facilitate an annual Climate Action Summit
In December of 2019, the coalition released a Climate Action KC Playbook. This detailed policy and best practices manual highlights a broad scope of solutions for municipal governments to reduce greenhouse gasses. Strategies within the playbook include energy efficiency, clean energy implementation, recycling, transportation, and more. The Climate Action Playbook can be found here.
Additionally, approximately 500 people attended the coalition's inaugural Climate Action Summit held last March. The event focused on how individuals as well as area cities can do their part to improve quality of life via emissions reductions and take meaningful steps to mitigate climate change. The Greater KC Metro Chamber sponsored and moderated a panel discussion on The Business Case for Sustainability that featured panelists from several major employers in the region.
More about the coalition can be found here:
More about the Summit can be found here.
