2026 Community Engagement Framework
IMT’s 2026 Community Engagement Framework includes guidance on how to effectively engage frontline communities in equitable decarbonization policymaking.
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Why Equitable Building Policy Matters in St. Louis
2025 was a rough year for frontline communities advocating for Environmental Justice (EJ). Federal EJ funding was slashed, and local governments centering EJ principles were strained due to political uncertainty. Consequently, community-based organizations (CBOs) advocating for community-informed decision-making faced governmental staff with limited capacity and funding. Despite this landscape, equitable decarbonization was still front and … Continued
How to Center Community Priorities in a Building Performance Standard
While many organizations, governments, communities, businesses, foundations are all chipping away at climate change from different angles, the planet is still warming and more immediate challenges around affordability and health divert attention from the urgency around climate. How can we as a society do better? By bringing more people into climate action! Some of the … Continued
Community Health Priorities and Building Performance Policies
This document can serve as a starting point for both governments and advocates to craft decarbonization policies that center community priorities, and for insights on how to collaborate across sectors and interest groups.
Tenants at the Center: An Equitable Path to Building Decarbonization
Case studies and policy recommendations that focus on passing strong tenant protections to prevent rent increases and displacement stemming from building decarbonization efforts.
How can community accountability boards transform climate governance?
This factsheet explains what it takes to start a CAB, why your community should start one, where they exist, and how to set one up.
SoCal Fires and Generational Resilience: A 5th Gen Chicana’s Reflection
Taping up my 93 year old grandma’s windows with duct tape and reposting mask mutual aid efforts was not on my 2025 bingo card. But here we are, another wildfire, another scramble to limit smoke inhalation, and another time I wonder if it was always this hard to live in Southern California. The land is … Continued
Equitable Decarbonization Learning Series: Part 3
An explainer about why building decarbonization matters, the benefits, and the unintended consequences and solutions.
Community Climate Shift Announces Nine New Partners
Nine community-based organizations will receive Community Climate Shift support to participate in equitable policymaking.
Shubhada Kambli
For more than ten years, Shubhada Kambli has led results-driven environmental programs at the local, state and federal levels across the country.