Building Climate-Resilient Communities: Frontline Experiences and Real-World Solutions
Recorded
Monday, May 6, 2024 · 2:00 p.m.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
To meet the climate challenge and achieve an equitable energy transition, we must bring investment to under-resourced and overburdened frontline communities to build more resilient and sustainable infrastructure and energy systems. This will require cross-sector collaboration between climate, finance and community leaders.
This Canary Media forum brings together community development experts and local voices to explore the challenges facing frontline communities, the critical role financial institutions play in supporting equitable development, and feasible solutions to advance an equitable green transition.
The panel discussion is sponsored by the What’s Possible project. Brought to you by Enterprise Community Partners and LISC with support from the Wells Fargo Foundation, What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods is a collection of essays on the intersection of community development and climate resilience. What’s Possible offers innovative, forward-thinking solutions that focus on decarbonization, resilience, and equity, and prioritize low-income and communities of color who have disproportionately felt the adverse impacts of climate change.
Senior Vice President Sustainability Philanthropy Leader, Wells Fargo
John Moon is Senior Vice President Sustainability Philanthropy Leader at Wells Fargo where he leads grant-making to scale sustainable finance toward an equitable climate transition. He has extensive public and private sector experience, focused on...
Annie Donovan is President & CEO of Raza Development Fund. Annie has decades of experience in community development finance. She has held executive roles in two other leading community development financial institutions, has served as a senior...
Brett Isaac was born on Diné (Navajo) land, growing up near Kayenta within the Navajo Nation, in an area called Baby Rocks. He is of the Towering House Clan born for the Salt Clan and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.
Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
John Smith is the Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community development organization, located in the Roxbury area of Boston, whose mission is to empower the residents of that community to organize, plan for,...