by CommunicationsTeam | Apr 6, 2020 | News
Coronavirus: nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy The Washington Post reported the unexpected bright side of the economic and health crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic – the marked improvement in our environment resulting from the massive...
by CommunicationsTeam | Apr 4, 2020 | News
From our friends at WCAI: There are important parallels between a global pandemic and climate change. One moves with incredible speed, the other more slowly, but both have the power to drastically change our way of life. WCAI’s Mindy Todd recently spoke with...
by CommunicationsTeam | Apr 1, 2020 | Education, News
Yale Climate Opinion Maps project has produced a set of interactive maps illustrates public opinion on a variety of climate beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support. The data is drawn from the Yale Project on Climate Communication and is updated every one to two...
by CommunicationsTeam | Mar 17, 2020 | News
From our friends at ClimateXChange: As federal climate action continues to lag, states are taking the lead in proposing and championing comprehensive climate policy. But sometimes passing strong bills at the state level can be equally difficult, and we don’t have any...
by CommunicationsTeam | Mar 9, 2020 | News
The Climate Collaborative recently welcomed two renowned Cape Cod business leaders to its midst: Wendy Northcross, CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and Dorothy Savarese, CEO of Cape Cod 5. “We are thrilled to have both Wendy and Dorothy join our board of...
by CommunicationsTeam | Mar 7, 2020 | News
The Cape Cod Times has published an editorial supporting the Climate Emergency Initiative and encouraging citizens to vote in favor of the Emergency Declaration at their Town Meetings. Thank you, Times Editors! We appreciate the support! Read the full editorial here:...
by Janet Williams | Mar 2, 2020 | News
This morning’s story in the CapeCod.com features the work of the Climate collaborative in planning, organizing and leading the Cape Cod Climate emergency Initiative. Climate Coalition Seeking Town Meeting...
by CommunicationsTeam | Feb 28, 2020 | News
This year’s spring Town Meetings will feature a Climate Emergency Declaration – in every Cape Cod Town. The Climate Change Collaborative has been working with 350 Cape Cod, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod and several other environmental and faith...
by CommunicationsTeam | Feb 26, 2020 | News
The Cape Cod Climate Emergency Initiative — a new coalition of citizen activists, leading environmental organizations, faith communities and others — has recently formed to focus attention and action at the municipal level, Cape-wide, on the urgent need to reduce...
by CommunicationsTeam | Feb 20, 2020 | News
With their deep ties to the land and reliance on fishing, hunting, and gathering, indigenous tribes are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Now, native communities across North America are stepping up to adopt climate action plans to protect...
by CommunicationsTeam | Feb 7, 2020 | News
On a cold Tuesday afternoon last month, nearly 60 people filed into the West Tisbury Library on Martha’s Vineyard. “You came just for the biscotti, right?” joked the featured speaker, Marc Rosenbaum, an environmental building consultant. Nope, they came to hear...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jan 31, 2020 | News, News
On January 30, 2020, in a marathon late-night session, the Massachusetts State Senate passed legislation creating economy-wide carbon pricing, and requiring the state to reach net zero emissions by 2050. In doing so, the Senate doubled down on its commitment to the...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jan 19, 2020 | News
Independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern record-keeping began in 1880. Globally, 2019 temperatures were second only to those of...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jan 16, 2020 | News
The Collaborative’s partner, Woods Hole Research Center has contributed research and analysis support to a major new climate report from McKinsey Global Institute. Climate Risk and Response examines current climate risks and the potential global economic impacts they...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jan 15, 2020 | News
The Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative has issued a Position Statement on solar arrays sited in forested areas. The Collaborative notes in its Statement that while solar power should be encouraged as a key component in moving away from fossil fuels, options exist...
