Description
County staff cannot anticipate all the barriers frontline communities face in community engagement processes and benefit from learning what communities need to mitigate these barriers. King County will develop climate impacts and environmental and climate justice training for County employees, boards, and commissions connected to climate, environment, sustainability, land use, and transportation topics. This training will provide staff and community advisory bodies with an understanding of disparate climate impacts, frontline community priorities, and examples of how to embed cross-cutting climate equity strategies into County initiatives. The goal is to prepare King County staff and community working groups with a shared framework for addressing and accounting for the disparate impacts of climate change.