Bianca Caramento is the Manager of the Bay Area Climate Change Council, leading the collective impact initiative to advance and accelerate climate change action in the cities of Burlington and Hamilton. She shares with us the structure behind this collective, with her "backbone" role housed in the Centre for Climate Change Management at Mohawk College, supporting a collective of 14 community organizations.

We hear about their Theory of Change – the master plan for reducing green house gases in the community by 50% by 2030, towards becoming net zero cities by 2050, and how this work was informed by data and community consultation. We see the power of this collective, supporting the work of the cities to address climate change while holding them to account.

BACCC provides a model for catalyzing change that many seek to emulate in their own communities, be it for GHG reductions or for using a collective approach to address other local issues.

Resources

Bay Area Climate Change Council : https://bayareaclimate.ca

BACCC plan/Theory of Change: https://bayareaclimate.ca/zero-carbon/#our-plan

BACCC Regional GHG inventory: https://bayareaclimate.ca/zero-carbon/#ghg-inventory

BACCC Indigenous Collaboration Policy: https://bayareaclimate.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/BACCC-Indigenous-Collaboration-Policy.pdf

BACCC members:

Burlington Economic Development Corp

Burlington Green

Clean Air Hamilton Conservation Halton

Environment Hamilton

Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

Hamilton Conservation Authority

Hamilton Health Sciences

Hamilton Industrial Environmental Association

Hamilton Regional Indian Centre

Sustainability Leadership

United Way Halton & Hamilton

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