City’s Beam to speak on climate change at Sustainable Redmond meeting on March 9

Published 1:32 pm Friday, February 27, 2015

Sustainable Redmond will hold its first general meeting of 2015 at 7 p.m. on March 9 at the Redmond Library at 15990 N.E. 85th St.

This meeting is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.

The featured speaker for this meeting will be Cathy Beam, the City of Redmond’s principal environmental planner. She has driven the city’s climate action planning for a number of years, beginning with a municipal energy audit and inventory of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Beam will provide context regarding challenges and objectives to address climate change from the global to local level, then discuss how greenhouse gas targets are being set.

She has also been a member of King County’s Climate Change Coalition, which has brought together a number of jurisdictions — including Redmond — to develop common policies and practices at a regional level. This topic is particularly appropriate as state measures to reduce carbon emissions are being discussed in Olympia.

The meeting will conclude at 8:30 p.m.

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