EBC Climate Change and Air Committee

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Updated as of June 15, 2021

Mission Statement

The mission of the EBC Climate Change and Air Committee is to identify and address air pollution and climate change issues that are of importance to EBC members and their clients. Issues include but are not limited to legislative, regulatory and policy developments, innovative technologies, and business development opportunities at the federal, state, regional, and local level.

These issues are addressed by providing objective information from up-to-date and reliable sources including government officials, academics, technology developers, and business experts.

To carry out this mission, the EBC Climate Change and Air Committee will:

• Create and foster an open and ongoing exchange with legislators and regulators.
• Solicit input from academia, private developers and business experts.
• Organize focus groups to provide state regulators and policy makers with ideas, experiences and opinions on defined draft policies or regulations.
• Organize special Climate Change Forums to promote the exchange of information.
• Organize seminars, workshops or conferences on major topics of interest to EBC members and their clients.
• Hold networking events for EBC members to meet key stakeholders and interact with clients and other EBC members.

Program Topics of interest include:

• GHG inventorying and verification methods
• Innovative GHG emission reduction technologies
• Carbon management and trading strategies
• GHG reporting and disclosure
• Impacts assessment
• Adaptation

Committee Leadership

Committee Co-Chairs

Samuel Bell, Senior Hazard Mitigation Specialist
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
249 Vanderbilt Avenue, Norwood, MA  02062
781.278.3847  //  [email protected]

Julie Eaton Ernst, P.E., Lead Resiliency Engineer
Weston & Sampson
55 Walkers Brook Drive, Reading, MA 01867
978.818.9008  //  [email protected]

Leadership Team

The members of the EBC Climate Committee and Air Leadership team meet routinely with the committee chair to identify topics for future EBC programs. As part of their responsibility, members of the leadership team will also take on the role of program chair to organize and moderate EBC programs for this committee.

Current members of the EBC Climate Committee and Air Leadership Team include:

Nasser Brahim, Senior Climate Resiliency Specialist
Woods Hole Group
107 Waterhouse Road, Bourne, MA 02532
508.495.6237  //  [email protected]

Julie Conroy, AICP, Planner III – Sr. Climate Planner/Urban Designer
Ramboll
101 Federal Street, 19th Floor, Boston, MA 02110
617.501.1352 //  [email protected]

Joseph Famely, Climate & Sustainability Team Lead
Woods Hole Group
107 Waterhouse Road, Bourne, MA 02532
508.495.6220  // [email protected]

Seth Jaffe, Partner
Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
617.832.1203  //  [email protected]

Isabel Kaubisch, Senior Permitting Manager
EnBW North America Inc.
311 Summer Street Suite 200 Boston, MA 02210
857.294.9477 //  [email protected]

Kelly Knee, Director – Coastal Hazards
RPS ASA
55 Village Square Drive, South Kingston, RI 02879
401.789.6224  //  [email protected]

Diane Mas, Vice President | Chief Resilience Officer
Fuss & O’Neill, Inc.
146 Hartford Road Manchester CT 06040
413.348.9738  //  [email protected]

Scott D. Turner, Director of Planning
Environmental Partners Group, Inc.
1900 Crown Colony Dr, #402, Quincy, MA 02169
617.657.0280  //  [email protected]

Past Meetings

2021

• June 21 – Climate Change and Air Committee Virtual Program Planning Meeting
• April 15 – Climate Change Webinar: Laws of the Land – Local Bylaws, Ordinances, and Regulations for Climate Resilience
• April 13 – Climate Change Webinar: Part 2 – Investing in a Boston Harbor Coastal Resiliency Layered Defense System – Funding Options
• March 16 – Climate Change Webinar Series: Part 1 – Integrating Municipal Coastal Resiliency Plans into a Boston Harbor Regional Layered Defense System
• January 25 – Climate Change and Air Committee Virtual Program Planning Meeting

2020

• December 10 – Climate Change Webinar: The Option of a Boston Harbor Regional “Layered Defense” Coastal Resilience System
• October 20 – Climate Change Webinar: What You Need to Know about FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program
• September 11 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Boston University Climate Action Plan
• August 26 – Second Annual New England Climate Change, Resilience & Adaptation Summit: Part Two – Update on Climate Science and Case Studies
• August 21 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Suffolk Downs Resiliency and Adaptation Study
• August 7 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Refurbishment of Langone Park & Puopolo Playground
• July 31 – Second Annual New England Climate Change, Resilience & Adaptation Summit: Part One – State Leadership
• July 24 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Climate Change and the Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
• July 20 – Climate Change and Air Committee Virtual Program Planning Meeting
• July 10 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Carbon Free Boston – A Long-Term Framework
• June 26 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Forward Thinking Climate Resiliency – The Moakley Park Project
• June 12 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: City of Cambridge Port Climate Change & Preparedness Plan
• May 22 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: City of Boston 2019 Climate Action Plan
• May 20 – Climate Leadership Webinar: Massachusetts Climate Programs & Priorities for 2020 with EEA Undersecretary David Ismay
• May 8 – Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Resilient Mystic Collaborative
• February 28 – Underwater Underwriting: Flood Insurance in the Age of Climate Change
• January 13 – Climate Change and Air Committee Program Planning Luncheon