Plymouth To Host Climate Change Forum

PLYMOUTH, MA — As a seashore community in a world with rising ocean levels and warming temperatures, Plymouth is looking to be proactive with how climate change will affect America's Hometown. The town will hold a Climate and Health Community Forum on Jan. 27 to discuss its developing Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment and Action plan.

Residents are invited to Plymouth North High School from 7 to 9 p.m. to share input on how to make the town more climate-ready, while learning how climate change will potentially alter the the community and its landscape.

Plymouth is working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Old Colony Planning Council on the vulnerability assessment. The goal of the initiative is to work directly with residents, businesses and stakeholders to understand the potential impacts of climate change and how the town plans to deal with these impacts while protecting and promoting the community's health, environment and economic prosperity.

Topics include: Evaluating how Plymouth's health strengths, assets and challenges could be affected or further hurt by climate change impacts, gauging the public's beliefs on what is most important to protect in Plymouth, and prioritizing actions to keep Plymouth a vibrant, healthy community in the face of climate change.

For more information please contact Jeanette Pantoja at jpantoja@mapc.org or 617-933-0757.