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About Us
Our Four Functions
Connect diverse partners to build relationships, exchange ideas, and learn from each others’ experience.
Connect Partners
Leverage and share resources to coordinate strategies and launch joint initiatives that advance regional climate solutions.
Leverage Resources
Champion initiatives, programs, and projects that reflect the regional nature of climate change and the shared solutions required to address them.
Champion Solutions
Advance equity by uplifting community needs, strengths, and ideas through thoughtful community engagement.
Advance Equity
Our Governance Structure
The Climate Collaborative is a free cooperative network and membership is open to any legal entity representing a regional interest in climate mitigation and adaptation action that are located in or operate within Santa Barbara County.
The Collaborative is overseen by a Network Management Team. The Network Management Team is situated within the Sustainability Division of the County of Santa Barbara. The Sustainability Division serves as the organizational backbone of the Collaborative, providing funding, coordination, and financial management in service of sustaining the Collaborative.
Decision-making and governance is determined by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee provides strategic leadership and general oversight for the Collaborative helping ensure mission alignment and strengthening coordination across sectors. Working closely with the Network Management Team, the Steering Committee supports strategic planning, governance, fiscal oversight, and communications.
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Our Purpose
We are guided by the vision of cultivating a carbon-neutral, climate-resilient, prosperous, and equitable region. In pursuit of this vision, the Collaborative serves as a forum for fostering a shared understanding of regional risks and opportunities, bridging efforts between sectors, and identifying and implementing climate solutions.
As a Collaborative network, our role is different from advocacy coalitions that champion policy agenda, our work is focused on aligning and developing multi-stakeholder and multi-benefit efforts that deliver landscape-level impact. We advance regional scale solutions through our four primary functions.