Submit a Nomination for the Steering Committee

The Climate Adaptation Forum is seeking enthusiastic, creative, and dedicated professionals committed to volunteering their time to provide cutting-edge thought leadership through the organization and execution of quarterly forums.

The 2024 nomination period has now closed. 

About the Climate Adaptation Forum

Adaptation to climate change, as well as the intersection of climate resilience race, and equity have emerged as an essential and permanent topics for professional, academic, government, and public discussion.

Engineers, architects, property owners, insurers, planners, environmental regulators, critical infrastructure owners, emergency responders, community organizations, public health providers, policymakers, attorneys, and many others are grappling with how to incorporate the evident need for adaptation and resilience into much of what they do. Research institutions of all types have been informing action and policy to address this complex issue.

This growing body of experience and expertise in adaptation is not widely disseminated either within or across the traditional silos that define professions, disciplines and practices. The Climate Adaptation Forum has stepped in as a regular, ongoing opportunity for adaptation professionals from various fields to meet and cross-pollinate ideas and share solutions to common problems.

Since 2017, the Environmental Business Council of New England and the Sustainable Solutions Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston have collaborated to deliver a quarterly series of half-day Climate Adaptation Forums that provide cutting-edge thought leadership and networking on adaptation to climate change.

These quarterly forums address a broad array of topics. Local, national and global speakers represent forward-thinking institutions, global firms, academia, government and other high level practitioners. Join the ever-growing group of professionals working to address the challenge of climate change adaptation and resiliency at the quarterly forums.

 

About the Climate Adaptation Forum Steering Committee

The Climate Adaptation Forum Steering Committee was established to provide thought leadership on the identification of critical issues impacting climate adaptation. Critical issues identified by the Steering Committee and Forum Organizers become the topics of the quarterly events.

The Climate Adaptation Forum Steering Committee is made up of stakeholders and experts in the areas of climate adaptation and resilience. Steering Committee members are selected from nonprofit organizations, municipal, state, and federal agencies, the academic community, and private industry. The Forum Organizers are committed to a Steering Committee that represents the diverse perspectives of all climate adaptation stakeholders.

 

Responsibilities of Steering Committee Members:

• Attend Steering Committee meetings – the Steering Committee meets a minimum of twice a year with the Forum Organizers to identify topics for future events and provide feedback on the operation of the Forum.
• Promote Forum events – Steering Committee members are encouraged to promote forum events through their networks.
• Co-Chair Forum events – Steering Committee members will occasionally take on the role of Forum Co-Chair to organize and moderate an event.
• Facilitate breakout discussions – Steering Committee members are expected to assist with facilitating breakout sessions for any event they are attending.
• Respond to surveys and calls for feedback – Steering Committee members are occasionally asked to respond to surveys or provide feedback outside of the semi-annual Committee meeting.

Each Steering Committee Member serves a 3-year term with a maximum total length of service of six consecutive years.