How to Harness the Power of Your Community to Address Climate Change: A Local Official's Guide

Local agencies throughout California are successfully involving their residents and businesses to develop local policies, programs and action plans to address climate change. This new guide offers:

• Suggestions about key community engagement strategies;
• Examples of how counties and cities have used these strategies to involve the public in their climate change deliberations;
• Ways to energize the community to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
• Lessons learned from local agencies that used public involvement to promote community and individual action to address climate change; and
• Resources to learn more.

This publication was prepared in partnership with the California Air Resources Board. The guide is available for download under "Documents & Resources" at right.