Instructions on how to complete the Survey:
It is recommended that staff who are responsible for resilience, sustainability, and/or planning should complete the self-assessment survey with support as needed from other cross-functional departments. The time it takes to complete the survey will be dependent on the level of detail provided in the response, however, it is estimated to take 5 – 10 hours to complete. Please submit only one survey response per local or tribal government.
The attached document provides all survey questions (in a fillable pdf format) to allow a respondent to review the survey in its entirety before beginning the response process in Survey Monkey. Only responses provided in Survey Monkey will be accepted. Within Survey Monkey, respondents will have the ability to save a portion of the survey and return to complete at a later date. However, once you click “done” at the end of the survey, you have completed your survey and you will not be able to go back and make edits to your responses. Please contact Russell Paez if you need access to your survey responses.
The Survey will be open from July 12, 2021 to September 17, 2021.
In 2021, the first year this survey will be administered, the Compact endeavors to establish a baseline of what climate actions local governments are advancing across the Compact region. In responding to this year’s survey, please report on the most impactful activities the local government has done to advance the 11 priority actions through calendar year 2020, even if the activity took place prior to 2020. However, if the activity was advanced many years ago, has since become antiquated/outdated, and is no longer used to inform your climate action work, please do not include it (e.g. a GHG inventory conducted in 2010 and not updated since).
In subsequent years, the survey will only capture annual progress by local and tribal governments on each of the 11 priority actions.
All Survey Questions PDF
This document contains all survey questions to allow a respondent to review before beginning the response process in Survey Monkey. A respondent can return to the survey as many times as necessary once they have begun in Survey Monkey.
11 Priority Actions
This document contains all 11 prioritized mitigation and adaptation actions that local governments are asked to report annual progress toward.
Equity Recommendations
This document contains guidance developed by an equity advisory committee to support local governments in their efforts to embed equity in their climate action. While this document is comprehensive, it is not meant to be exhaustive of every possible step a local government can take to advance equitable climate action.
To learn more about how the Compact will use the survey results, please refer to “How will the Climate Assessment Tool be used?”
While partaking in the survey is completely voluntary for local governments, we believe there are numerous benefits:
- Provides guidance on priority actions to take to address climate change
- Provides guidance from local equity experts on ways to embed equity into climate actions
- Creates common priorities to work on together as a region, and identifies other local government leaders from whom to learn
- Provides opportunity to share progress and successes
- Aids in improving transparency on climate change activities
- Supports communication with communities and other key stakeholders
- Builds the case for increasingly ambitious climate action in the region and the resources to support this action
- Helps identify and inform potential topics for regional capacity building
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Russell Paez ([email protected]) or Lauren Ordway Evans ([email protected]).