History & Mission
The climate crisis is bearing down on our planet — imperiling lives, health, economy, environment, and entire ways of life — and the Cape & Islands region of Massachusetts is exceptionally vulnerable. With increasing temperatures, ocean warming and acidification, sea level rise, intensified storms and damage, and coastal erosion and flooding, action to address this crisis is imperative.
The Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization whose mission is to reduce ways in which the Cape & Islands region contributes to climate change and to protect our region from its potentially devastating impacts. Our goals are to broaden understanding, deepen partnerships, accelerate programs, and inspire individual and collective action to counter the climate crisis. We accomplish these goals through communication, collaboration, advocacy, and activism.
To realize a resilient, thriving, and sustainable Cape & Islands that moves our region away from reliance on fossil fuels, embraces energy conservation and clean energy, fosters innovative climate solutions, and prevents, minimizes, and adapts to unavoidable impacts of climate change in a manner that is resilient, equitable and environmentally sustainable.
Understanding the climate crisis disproportionately impacts people of color and other underserved communities, we are committed to solving the climate crisis by building a more just, inclusive, and equitable region. We value the voices and contributions of diverse races, nationalities, religions, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and/or abilities, and seek solutions to the climate crisis that exemplify and advance real diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
Recognizing that the climate crisis demands we take urgent action to fulfill multiple goals, we consistently search for opportunities to create synergies to prevent, resist and protect against the impacts of climate change. We believe that nature-based solutions are among the most effective approaches to climate protection and understand that pursuing these solutions also enhances and conserves the fragile ecosystems that surround us, and upon which our sustained quality of life in this place depends.
Leadership
Executive Director
Officers
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Vice President
Clerk
Directors
President, CapeBuilt
Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative
Executive Director, Cape Light Compact
Chair, 350 Cape Cod
Director of Science Programs, Pleasant Bay Community Boating
Assistant Director, Association to Preserve Cape Cod
Co-Chair, Special Committee on Energy, Built Environment & Transportation
Executive Director, Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts Community Liason, Vineyard Wind
Community Organizer and Youth Mentor
Co-Chair, Faith Communities Environmental Network
Director of Sustainability, Cape Air
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (Alternate: Chris Kennedy)
Executive Officer, Homebuilders and Remodelers of Cape Cod
Chief Executive Officer, Cape Cod Technology Council
Mobility Manager, Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
Co-Chair, Faith Communities Environmental Network
Executive Director, J.F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum
Executive Director, Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative
Park Planner, Cape Cod National Seashore
Executive Director, Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts (Alternates: Julie Early, Amy Henderson)
Habitat for Humanity
Executive Director, Cape Cod Commission (Alternates: Heather McElroy, Erin Perry, Michelle White)
Cape Air
Alternates
Kristin Andres
APCC
Matthew Burke
Cape Cod 5
Eugene Curry
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
Julie Early
Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts
Amy Henderson
Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts
Chris Kennedy
Nate Mayo
Vineyard Wind
Heather McElroy
Cape Cod Commission
Erin Perry
Cape Cod Commission
Lew Stern
FCEN
Michelle White
Cape Cod Commission