Climate Action Planning Webinar: Looking Beyond Carbon Neutrality and Resilience

This talk will summarize what a climate action plan (CAP) is, what they most often do or cover and how the best developed CAPs are successful, but will then go beyond the traditional aspects of climate planning to talk about some aspects that are often left out such as development of municipal infrastructure and the means of financing these aspects of city functioning.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Adrienne Greve is a Professor in the City & Regional Planning Department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA. Her research focuses on climate change and the planning response to it from greenhouse gas reduction to climate adaptation and climate-exacerbated hazards planning. She served as a Visiting Research Professor at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems at Kyoto University in 2013 & 2014.

Dr. Greve served on the development teams for the first two versions of the California Climate Adaptation Planning Guide for the California Office of Emergency Services and authored a book titled Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities (2019) in collaboration with two co-authors. Dr. Greve has also been awarded contracts to develop local climate action plans (CAPs). She has worked and conducted research domestically, as well as in Japan (Tohoku Coast), China, sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, and India.

Dr. Greve holds a PhD in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington, a master's degree in Bioresource Engineering from Colorado State University, and a bachelor's degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell University. In the past, Dr. Greve worked as a surface water hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.

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