Climate
How and where we build shapes how communities experience climate risks and benefits. And the communities most exposed to floods, fire, hurricanes, drought, and other climate-related disasters are often underinsured communities of color whose residents have low incomes.
Investing in Climate Justice
Acknowledging the link between community development and climate change is essential to equitable climate-resilient investment. The community investment field can help take the lead in shaping climate policy and practice and creating equitable, community-led finance solutions to today’s climate resilience challenges.
Equitable Climate Resilience
Communities of color who face disproportionate climate risks need to create climate solutions—and find funds to implement them. Addressing local climate challenges—emissions reduction, climate resilience, disaster recovery—will require collaboration across fields, simultaneous work on multiple fronts and time frames, and innovative finance solutions.
Program spotlight
Greenlining the Block
Greenlining the Block is a partnership developed to support the leadership and expertise of communities of color to prepare for and maximize federal, state, and local infrastructure investments to drive effective climate action that meets community needs.
The Cambridge Climate Leaders Fellowship
The Cambridge Climate Leaders Fellowship (CCLF) is an intensive, hands-on program designed to equip leaders with the adaptive leadership knowledge and skills needed to build lasting climate security frameworks in communities and to meaningfully advance the State’s movement for climate resilience so it can more quickly and equitably achieve results for the people of Cambridge. Applications will be open through May 11, 2024.
News & Resources
Explore tools, research, and ideas to help those implementing climate resilience solutions.
Complex Climate Problems Call for Multi-Sector Solutions
Seeding Climate Resilience Through Equitable Investment
Community-based climate partnerships poised to gain from new “green bank” funding
Green banks could pay for housing and climate change at the same time
Climate resilient construction helps mitigate disasters
Advancing Local Community Investment Systems
Participants in ACI’s programs develop capital absorption, racial equity, leadership, and collaboration skills to create the specific opportunities residents seek.
Past Programs
The multisector place-based teams in Connect Capital used the capital absorption framework to lay the groundwork for attracting and deploying capital at scale to achieve community goals.
