Colorado is at the frontlines of climate change impacts, including growing wildfire and heat hazards. The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) launched the first regional Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator (Accelerator) in 2023 to support communities and businesses that operate in the North Front Range of Colorado prepare for these impacts.

Through the Accelerator’s 2023 convenings, a diverse set of leaders identified and explored seven Key Action Areas to advance the North Front Range’s resilience to wildfire and heat. These areas cover a range of crucial resilience components and can serve as a roadmap moving forward.

The 2023 Accelerator convenings—a Climate Resilient Economies Roundtable in October and a Resources Connector Forum in November—connected communities and businesses to each other and helped expand the pool of potential partners, including economic development groups, community-based organizations, nonprofits, and state and federal agencies. The discussions were designed to augment local resilience efforts by uncovering strategies that can reduce the impacts of more than one climate hazard and will require action from a broad range of actors to succeed.

This brief captures discussions from 2023 convenings, including the stakeholder engagement process, current and projected wildfire and heat impacts, the shared regional vision for a prosperous future, key action areas for resilience, and opportunities and resources to accelerate resilience action.

C2ES launched the 2023 Accelerator in partnership with the Colorado State University (CSU) Climate Adaptation Partnership and with the generous support of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation.

More on C2ES’s work in the North Front Range

• Blog: 7 key action areas emerge for wildfire, heat resilience on Colorado’s North Front Range
• Read more about the C2ES Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator here.

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In collaboration with Resilience First, Resilience Rising, the Race to Resilience Campaign, and the Marrakech Partnership, C2ES will explore practical actions to drive progress on the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda. This roundtable discussion is part of the official COP28 Global Climate Action Program and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences.

As global efforts intensify to realize the Sharm El-Sheik goals, the spotlight is on harnessing the might of private finance. This includes tapping into groundbreaking mechanisms that champion nature-based solutions. This implementation lab is designed to explore tangible actions, showcase real-world resilience initiatives from diverse perspectives, and share case studies from around the world. Participants will have the opportunity to dissect strategies that leading organizations are championing, all aligned with the overarching Sharm El-Sheik Adaptation Agenda’s outcome targets.

This Lab will showcase diverse real-world resilience initiatives in order to explore innovative private sector strategies for delivering to the Sharm El-Sheik Adaptation Agenda’s outcome targets.

Featuring:

• Nat Keohane, President, C2ES
• Seth Schultz, CEO, Resilience Rising
• Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion COP27
• Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative
• Feike Sijbesma, Global Ambassador UNFCCC Race to Resilience

C2ES @ COP28

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Over one year and $270 billion of new capital investment announcements later, the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), is transforming the landscape of the U.S. economy and the pathway toward the U.S. NDC goal of reducing emissions 50-52 percent by 2030.

At this event hear from CEOs and senior executives in major segments of the U.S. economy—automotive, clean tech, industry, finance, and electric power—on how recent federal legislation is catalyzing new and additional investment flows into manufacturing, infrastructure, operations, and research and development of next-generation technologies.

Attend this event to learn about recent and new project announcements because of the IRA, and to explore how U.S. policy approaches and business solutions could be replicated and scaled globally.

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The event’s expert panel will discuss how food and beverage leaders are approaching thermal decarbonization. Diageo and other corporate energy buyers will share their perspectives and experiences with different technologies and strategies, lessons learned, and what’s next.

After the panel, Diageo will host follow-up discussions and networking in their fantastic in-suite lounge, BarDeco.

A total of 100 tickets are available. Attendees must be age 21+ and RSVP ahead of time to be admitted.

We hope to see you there!

Panel Speakers:

• Jayant Kairam, Vice President, Society / ESG, Diageo (moderator)
• Ashley Allen, Chief Sustainability Officer, Oatly
• Blaine Collison, Executive Director, Renewable Thermal Collaborative
• Andrew Jarrick, Environment & Sustainabilty Excellence Manager, Diageo
• Kevin Rabinovitch, Global VP Sustainability & Chief Climate Officer, Mars
• Additional speakers from RTC members and sponsors TBA

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