City of Bloomington, Indiana VIDEO UPDATES with Mayor Hamilton, 7 Oct 2022

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From YouTube: VIDEO UPDATE: Regional Climate Convening

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Join Mayor Hamilton and Economic & Sustainable Development Director Alex Crowley as they discuss the first Regional Climate Convening assembled to discuss and address climate change.

The event held on Tuesday, October 4, brought together about 100 critical players from Bartholomew, Brown, and Monroe Counties, from the private, nonprofit, educational, and government sectors. The goal was to address the shared challenge that is climate change and explore preparation, adaptation, and mitigation measures.

Learn more about the event at bloomington.in.gov/news/2022/10/06/5333

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Hi I'm Mayor John, Hamilton of Bloomington and I'm here today with Alex Crowley, the director of Economic and sustainable development for our city, and we wanted to update you on a big event that just happened recently: October 4th Tuesday Alex. We just had a regional climate convening which was a big deal. But can you tell us what it was sure.

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So it was the first convening of its kind in this area. It was a collaboration between Monroe, County, Brown, County and Bartholomew County, led by a variety of players in those communities and invited were leaders from across those communities in a variety of sectors: private sector, public sector non-profits. We ended up having about 100 people at.

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The event which.

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Is great, basically, it involved a keynote speaker: Tom leinberger who's, the executive chairman, Cummins and Cummins is doing great work in.

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Sustainability, big global company that did actually, as he make engines so they're really in the.

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Middle of all this, they are and they're doing, amazing things when it comes to sustainability, and then we had three panels: one dealing with science, the science of climate issues. uh We had a panel dealing with collaboration and what it might look like, and then we also had a panel dealing with what different sectors are actually currently doing, including both governmental and private sector. Great so.

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This was um really exciting three hours in the afternoon, thinking about climate and working together about climb, as you said, the first Regional Summit. So so, what's important about it. Why does it matter? What happened that afternoon? Well.

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First of all, there's a climate emergency, so that's a pretty important uh foundation for this. um What we you know have understood and I think whatever A lot of people understand is that there's only so much a government can do governmental entity, whether it's local or even you know, National. We.

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Have our climate action plan, we have a, we can't do a.

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Lot of that ourselves, that's right and it actually. If you look at our greenhouse gas inventory, it suggests that a lot of the actions that have to be taken will fall outside of our Direct Control. So what the convening is about is really setting the stage to find ways to partner in a public-private way, because it's going to have to be a community-wide effort. This is not something that we're going to solve. This is going to be with us forever I.

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Think somebody said it's a journey, not a destination I mean it's really a journey.

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And someone else said at the conference yesterday: I think it might then the keynote speaker that really we are never going to be able to back up right. We are going to have to mitigate we're going to have to continue to press forward. So anyway, we are in a position where we really are going to be dependent on a really great structure for collaboration across this. uh You know the Three Counties and we're looking for ways to do that.

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Well, I have to say it was a really exciting period of time that hours those people really digging into this climate emergency. So what's going to happen next, what's going to happen next with.

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This well we're not sure yet, uh but what we hope is that there were. We were planning some seeds in terms of thinking about ways in which collaboration can work I'm, hoping to see maybe sectoral coordination even.

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It's just within Private Industry. There are people at different stages of of where they are on this journey and I. Think having leaders like the Cummins of the world and some other players, we have local players who are being very aggressive. You know we have. The secretly group was one.

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Of the panelists and they're.

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Doing a really great thing, so really coordination, both within sectors between sectors and then certainly between the government and the and the private sector. As.

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Well great: well, if you want more information about it, you can check out on our website, but Alex I want to thank you for helping put that whole thing on with your team and I hope October over 4th 2022, when that happened will be seen as a start of something really important to get our community our region, taking more steps and more steps to address the climate emergency. So thanks for your interest and again, we appreciate your attention and check out more online. If you want.