Toolkit: Building Local
Climate Leadership
A Guide to Forming Climate Committees & Groups in Maine
About the Toolkit
At CEBE, we have provided technical assistance to over 20 rural communities in Maine to become more resilient to climate impacts through the Community Resilience Partnership. Throughout our work, we have identified a serious gap in resources tailored to building and sustaining long-term capacity for climate action in these communities.
That’s why we created this toolkit to share development tools, templates, and resources that can help your community build momentum for climate action.
What makes this guide different from other resources?
Different from other climate toolkits that provide a broad framework for climate action, this toolkit is focused on the establishment of climate committees and groups, providing a step-by-step, short, and practical guide for under-resourced rural communities.
Help us keep the toolkit updated!
Do you have a story, ideas, or resources that you would like added to the toolkit? Please reach out to CEBE to provide feedback at resilience@ecologybasedeconomy.org
We see the formation of climate committees and community climate groups as a key strategy to drive climate action at the local level, but getting started can be hard. As an example, CEBE spent months working with Norway’s town manager and select board just to figure out the process, and that was with paid staff dedicated to moving this initiative forward.
