RMCO in May 2009 launched a new Colorado Climate Network to supporting local climate programs. RMCO administers the Network, which is run for and guided by local governments in Colorado that have or are starting local climate-protection and climate-adaptation programs.
The announcement of the new network was made by Mayors John Hickenlooper of Denver and Doug Hutchinson of Fort Collins and the executive directors of the Colorado Muncipal League and the Colorado Association of Ski Towns.
The network has its own, separate website, at www.coclimatenetwork.org. Please go there for full details of the network, including the list of the current members, the services offered by the network, and information on how to join.
The Colorado Climate Network is an outgrowth of the Local Initiative of RMCO's Colorado Climate Project (see the previous page), and replaces that initiative. The Local Initiative focused on seeking adoption and implementation of the recommendations of RMCO's Climate Action Panel for actions by local governments -- the principal recommenation being that local governments adopt comprehensive local climate-protection programs, as some (but a relative few) local governments in Colorado. The Local Initiative Steering Committee working on that mission in 2008 quickly began to focus on the need for a statewide network to support those local governments that already have such programs (but which too often work without enough support) and those local governments just beginning, or interested in beginning, their own programs. That led to the creation of the network, and its replacement of the Local Initiative. |
