Racial Equity and Climate Roundtable 2

The Racial Equity and Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and racial equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many are more vulnerable to climate change. Climate change will have a greater negative effect on these groups. The Equity Dialogues focus on the most vulnerable populations to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of social equity in addressing climate change. This is with the goal of utilizing the conversations to foster greater social resilience for Boston communities.

These populations include:

• older adults
• youth
• people of color
• women
• people with disabilities (mobility, cognitive, sensory), and
• citizens experiencing homelessness.

The conversation will go over the impacts the City is expecting, connect how existing social structures disparately impact communities of color, and how that will impact preparation against climate change. We will then end with a roundtable conversation having communal dialogue around the connection and what we can all do to address the disparities.

The Racial Equity and Climate Roundtable will take place:

Thursday, February 27, 2020, at 5:30 p.m.

BCYF Hennigan Community Center,

200 Heath St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

If you are interested in participating in this conversation, please register for the event. If you are interested in hosting an Equity Dialogue conversation for your community members, please let us know. There is an Equity Dialogue for each of the most vulnerable groups to climate change.

If you have any questions, feel free to email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.