Climate Jobs Maine Meeting Agenda
Wednesday Jan. 22, 9:30am – 12:30pm
Mechanics Hall, Portland
Goals for Meeting
- Build deeper shared understanding of how climate change is impacting our unions, members, communities and the threats and opportunities before us
- Understand together the opportunity to expand our labor climate work in Maine, working with National Climate Jobs Resource Center, and begin planning what that should look like;
- Begin to brainstorm our labor climate research project with Cornell
AGENDA
9am Coffee & morning snacks
9:30am Welcome, Review Agenda, Context & Goals for the Meeting
9:35am Introductions & Go Around + Discussion
- How climate change/climate crisis impacts your union, members, community.
- What threats & opportunities do you see?
- Follow up discussion
10:15am Learning from Climate Jobs NY & National Climate Jobs Resource Center – Lessons Learned, Next Steps & Opportunities for Maine – Lara Skinner & Mike Fishman
10:35am Labor Climate Work that’s Been Happening in Maine (3 min each)
- Legislative Work: Maine Green New Deal, Renewable Portfolio standard bill, Community solar, others – Matt S, others
- Emerging collaboration: Labor Union & Building Trades – Dave Sullivan/Carol Sanborn & Grant Provost
- Solar & wind work – trying to make these union sectors – Nick Paquet, Jason Shedlock, Grant Provost
- Maine Climate Council – Matt Beck/Mike Williams
10:50am BREAK
11:05am Small Group Breakouts - Brainstorming a Maine Labor Climate Research Project; Reportback to big group + Discussion
- 11:05am – 11:30am Small Group Breakouts
- 11:30am – Noon Reportbacks & discussion
Noon Next Steps for Building out this Work
- Timeline of work going forward
- Proposal for quarterly meetings -
- Quick brainstorm of ideas for future meetings
- Anything else
12:20pm Recap Next Steps & Evaluation
12:30pm Adjourn