Climate Resilience Consulting Equity Statement

Our mission is to enable communities, governments and corporations to avoid, prepare for and resist the global and local impacts of climate change. Climate Resilience Consulting is committed to combatting climate change and protecting human health and wellbeing in a way that centers climate, racial, and gender equity. We recognize that historically disadvantaged, underserved, and underrepresented peoples—especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)—are most affected by climate change impacts due to systemic inequities built into current planning, policymaking and finance institutions and practices. Through our work in climate resilience strategy, measurement, and finance, Climate Resilience Consulting seeks to recognize and reverse structural underpinnings of inequities both in our own initiatives as well as those of our clients.

What this Means for Our Company

Our mission is reflected in our leadership, programs, and communications. We commit to:

1. Recruit talent that shares our mission.

2. Develop policies and programs that contribute to equitable outcomes in our own operations and work.

3. Help our clients to recognize the need for centering equity in their work and provide them with resources to help them to ensure equity in their operations and work.

4. Shift resources and decision making - e.g. in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating- when possible, to the communities we serve to center voices of historically disadvantaged, underrepresented, and underserved peoples.

5. Use social media and outreach efforts to elevate the voices of historically disadvantaged, underrepresented, and underserved peoples.

How We Pioneer Leadership on Equity

• Lead The Environmental Protection Agency’s EPA Equitable Resilience Planning through Active and Inclusive Community Engagement

• Support American Society of Adaptation Program’s BIPOC mentorship program

• Op-ed by Joyce Coffee and Chauncia Willis, “Why Is the Resilience Field So White?”

• Seminal review and critical assessment of the state of the American climate adaptation field, defining resilience as social equity;

• Establish and lead the UNDRR’s ARISE-US equity work group.

• Op-ed by Joyce Coffee and Stacy Swann, “Achieving Social Equity Is Connected with Climate Finance”

• Report by the University of Michigan, Climate Resilience Consulting, and University of California – Los Angeles, “Centering Racial Justice in Urban Flood Adaptation: Planning and Evaluation Tools for Decision Makers and Stakeholders.”

• Conception, fundraising and guidance for Equitable Climate Resilience.

• Profile of Miami Beach vs. Buras Louisiana daylighting the social inequity in housing that creates inequitable climate driven migration.

• Reparations cost-benefit analysis pilot projects in mid sized US cities.

• Facilitating equitable climate resilience discussions among C-suite nonprofit executives.

• Signatory to The Equitable and Just Climate Platform

• Racial equity climate vulnerability studies for philanthropic clients.

We believe social equity is fundamental to climate resilience.

Climate Resilience Consulting measures and manages our impacts.

Here are highlights from our annual social impact data:

Community: CRC donates more than 5% of our profit to NGOs supporting equitable community resilience and more than 5% of our full-time employee hours to pro bono equity-centered civic engagements, playing a transformative role in at least half of these engagements.

Value chain: CRC gives preference to suppliers owned by women or individuals from underrepresented populations and 100% of our significant suppliers are from these populations. 50% of CRC's team is BIPOC and CRC is women-owned.

Environment: 100% of CRC’s electric power is from onsite solar panels. Every year, we give more electricity to the grid than we use. We explicitly reduce airplane travel and purchase carbon insets related to our travel emissions, supporting urban trees in our communities.

Governance: CRC treats our social and environmental impacts as a primary measure of success for our business and prioritizes those impacts even in cases where they may not drive profitability. We have amended the traditional corporate governing documents to indicate this treatment and have included these impacts in all team KPIs.