{"id":3502388,"date":"2024-07-15T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3502388"},"modified":"2024-08-27T23:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:50:18","slug":"citizen-engagement-mounting-a-proper-government-response-to-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-07-15\/citizen-engagement-mounting-a-proper-government-response-to-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Engagement &#038; Mounting a Proper Government Response to the Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Hoffer is a pioneer: she is the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/office-of-climate-innovation-and-resilience\">Climate Chief<\/a> for the state of Massachusetts\u2014and Massachusetts is the first U.S. state to establish such a position. Is this a model that other states can follow? What policies are being championed to tackle the climate emergency? What are the prospects for governmental action to (1) help people navigate the challenging conditions imposed by global warming and (2) curtail fossil fuel use and re-envision both the energy sector and the economic status quo?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join environmental journalist Rachel Donald as she asks demanding questions, and learn how Melissa Hoffer and her colleagues are seizing the opportunity to change how Massachusetts approaches energy and economic policy on the quest to achieve net zero CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions by 2050.<\/span><\/p><p>Watch the complete interview here:<\/p><div class=\"resp-content-preview-message\">\r\n\t<h2>Get this Resilience+ Deep Dive to see more<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>With a Resilience+ account you can get Deep Dive content and first-hand access to events with experts, facilitated discussions, and educational resources.<\/p>\r\n\t<a class=\"res-btn-yellow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/product\/deep-dive-navigating-climate-unraveling\/\">Get This Deep Dive<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<div style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/enter\/\">Log In<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald interviews Melissa Hoffer, the first ever Climate Chief for the state of Massachusetts. Rachel and Melissa discuss the role of government in changing the energy landscape, from relying on fossil fuels to widespread adoption of renewable sources and how to overcome the status quo championed by powerful corporations and national interests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3502406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252020,252019,79717,79716,79718,252007,79720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-_exclude-from-feeds","category-_exclude-from-homepage","category-economy","category-energy","category-environment","category-resilience-plus","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}