Statewide Energy Efficiency Collaborative (SEEC) Supports California Local Government Climate Planning

In 2018, ICLEI led a series of nine training cohort sessions for 22 local governments on how to develop climate action scenarios using ClearPath. Building on this effort, in 2019, ICLEI supported 21 local governments to prepare their climate action plans.

The SEEC ClearPath Planning Module allows communities to produce cost-effective, target plans, offering built-in calculators specific to California policies that can assess community-specific impacts and benefits of mitigation strategies. Resulting visualizations can e exported and shared, showing combinations of GHG-reducing actions – and delivering insights for which actions are most impactful and when targets can expect to be met. City of Fremont Sustainability Assistant Robert Barton recounts his experience with the SEEC program: “I use ClearPath to assess our GHG inventory and compare against previous years, and we appreciate all the resources and help that ICLEI provides. Our [climate action plan] development would be all the more challenging without them.” ICLEI’s assistance to California’s local governments continues through 2020.