{"id":23331,"date":"2025-11-24T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=23331"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:00:38","slug":"advancing-climate-action-in-small-and-midsize-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2025\/11\/24\/advancing-climate-action-in-small-and-midsize-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Climate Action in Small and Midsize Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | 1:00 &#8211; 2:00 PM ET<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Virtual; Access recording <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WATvWG23Qt4\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Boston University Initiative on Cities hosted a webinar exploring how small and midsize cities are advancing climate action \u2013 and the creative strategies they are using to fund and implement it. The event will spotlight findings from a recent BU study examining climate action across 82 U.S. municipalities. The research shows that while most cities are undertaking climate initiatives, the actions pursued and their management vary widely.<\/p>\n<p>Following a brief presentation of the study, a panel of practitioners from Albany, NY; Ann Arbor, MI; and Burlington, VT discussed how these findings align with on-the-ground experience and what lessons can guide cities nationwide.<\/p>\n<div class=\" bu-callout alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24448 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-491x636.png 491w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/11\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-2-1582x2048.png 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/div>\n<a href='\/ioc\/files\/2026\/03\/Advancing-Climate-Action-in-Small-and-Midsize-Cities-Lessons-from-82-Municipalities-across-the-U.S.-Brief-Final.pdf' class='button button-primary'>Read the Brief<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | 1:00 &#8211; 2:00 PM ET Where: Virtual; Access recording here The Boston University Initiative on Cities hosted a webinar exploring how small and midsize cities are advancing climate action \u2013 and the creative strategies they are using to fund and implement it. The event will spotlight findings from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19783,"featured_media":23330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24449,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions\/24449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}