{"id":6261,"date":"2020-06-30T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:01:43","slug":"more-urgency-not-less-the-covid-19-pandemics-lessons-for-local-climate-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2020\/06\/30\/more-urgency-not-less-the-covid-19-pandemics-lessons-for-local-climate-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"More Urgency, Not Less: The COVID-19 Pandemic\u2019s Lessons for Local Climate Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The first of three reports that will provide community leaders, inside and outside of local government, with guidance about navigating their climate-action priorities through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nEach report, based on a synthesis of expertise and analysis of local climate-action options and current research, will address a different topic:<\/p>\n<p>1. Why local climate action needs more urgency, not less.<\/p>\n<a href='\/igs\/files\/2020\/09\/covid19-pandemics-lessons-for-local-climate-leadership-june2020-updated.pdf' class='button '>Read Report<\/a>\n<p>2. How the pandemic response creates opportunities and risks for local climate action, and how socially vulnerable populations can benefit from purposeful responses to the pandemic and climate change.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2020\/09\/climate-of-crisis-september-2020.pdf' class='button '>Read Report<\/a>\n<p>3. Which local climate actions should be a priority for federal funding.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2020\/10\/a-survey-of-north-american-city-climate-leaders-102820.pdf' class='button '>Read Report<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of three reports that will provide community leaders, inside and outside of local government, with guidance about navigating their climate-action priorities through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. Each report, based on a synthesis of expertise and analysis of local climate-action options and current research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15145,"featured_media":6285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[699],"tags":[650,369,68,210,59,646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/9173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}