This Carbon Free Boston: Social Equity Report provides a deeper equity context for Carbon Free Boston as a whole, and for each strategy area, by demonstrating how inequitable and unjust the playing field is for socially vulnerable Bostonians and why equity must be integrated into policy design and implementation. This report summarizes the current landscape of climate action work for each strategy area and evaluates how it currently impacts inequity. Finally, this report provides guidance to the City and partners on how to do better; it lays out the attributes of an equitable approach to carbon-neutrality, framed around three guiding principles:
1) plan carefully to avoid unintended consequences
2) be intentional in design through a clear equity lens
3) practice inclusivity from start to finish.
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- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Barr Foundation
- City of Boston
- The Grantham Foundation
- Henry P. Kendall Foundation
- Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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- Copyright 2019 by Boston Green Ribbon Commission. All rights reserved.
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- North America / United States (Northeastern) / Massachusetts / Suffolk County / Boston
- North America / United States (Northeastern) / Massachusetts / Suffolk County