Every year, the Climate Change Business
Journal (CCBJ) recognizes outstanding performance in the climate change field
with their Business Achievement Awards. EcoAdapt is pleased to announce that we
were chosen to receive the 2015 award for Advancing
Best Practices: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.
Nominations for the 2015 CCBJ Business Achievement Awards were
accepted in 200-word essays in either specific or unspecified categories. Final
awards were determined by a committee of CCBJ staff and CCBJ editorial advisory
board members.
EcoAdapt was recognized for providing valuable support, training
and assistance to local adaptation practitioners in the public and private sectors.
Program and project accomplishments from 2015 that garnered attention include:
- Continued research and outreach through the State of Adaptation initiative, producing case studies and synthesizing lessons learned through interviews with and surveys of adaptation practitioners. In 2015, these surveys included assessing adaptation efforts in the Southeast and U.S. Caribbean water resources and U.S. marine fisheries management.
- Continued management and curation of the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKEx.org);
- Serving as primary sponsor and organizer of the May 2015 National Adaptation Forum in St. Louis, MO;
- Working with SeaPlan, the City of Boston, and The Boston Harbor Association to develop an adaptation indicators framework to track and evaluate climate-related progress within the city; and
- Establishing and running the Available Science Assessment Project, which aims to apply scientific knowledge to increase the effectiveness of adaptation actions, with its first test case examining the role of fire treatments in Northwest national forests and communities.
For more information on the other winners of the Climate Change
Business Awards, visit http://ebionline.org/business-achievement-awards.
The 2015 CCBJ awards will be presented at a special ceremony at
the Environmental Industry Summit XIV in San Diego on March 9-11, 2016. The
Environmental Industry Summit is an annual three-day executive retreat hosted
by EBI Inc. Lead Scientist, Rachel M. Gregg, will formally accept the award in
person at this event.