Join us for the fifth public listening session with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force.

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Capita and This is Planet Ed (the Aspen Institute) have co-convened the Early Years Climate Action Task Force to draft the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan. The plan will recommend ways the country can help young children, zero to 8, flourish in the face of climate change. It will be published in late 2023.

The task force’s work is supported, in part, by the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.

Co-chaired by Diana Rauner, former First Lady of Illinois and President of Start Early, and Antwanye Ford, President and CEO, Enlightened, Inc. and Chair, District of Columbia Workforce Investment Council, the Task Force includes 19 other distinguished representatives from the education and health sectors, current and former elected officials in state and Tribal government, parent leaders, and early childhood advocates.

This fifth, public listening session of the Early Years Climate Action Task Force will focus specifically around the questions: How do local and state plans to address climate change include children?

About the speakers

Joel Moffett, a former vice-chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee now serving as the Director of Environmental Projects for Native Americans in Philanthropy

Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer for the City of Los Angeles

Adam Freed, a principal at Bloomberg Associates and former Acting and Deputy Director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability

Heather McTeer Toney, former mayor of Greenville, Mississippi and Vice President, Community Engagement at Environmental Defense Fund

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