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GE throws support behind Walsh’s new coastal resilience plan
Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s newly announced Resilient Boston Harbor plan largely depends on support from the business community and private landowners. Boston-based GE, the state’s largest company by revenue, says it’s fully on board.
→Source: Boston Business JournalBoston Mayor Marty Walsh lays out bold vision to fight climate change in city
In front of a crowd of Greater Boston business leaders, Mayor Marty Walsh laid out an ambitious vision of public projects to combat the future impacts of climate change in Boston.
→Source: MassLiveCity Unveils Transformative Plan to Create Resilient, Open Boston Harbor
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today rolled out a comprehensive and transformative vision that will invest in Boston’s waterfront to protect the City’s residents, homes, jobs, and infrastructure against the impacts of rising sea level and climate change. Announced in his annual speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor’s plan, “Resilient Boston Harbor,” lays out strategies along Boston’s 47-mile shoreline that will increase access and open space along the waterfront while better protecting the city during a major flooding event.
→Source: City of BostonWalsh calls for major investment to guard city against flooding
Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Wednesday will roll out an array of projects designed to protect Boston from rising sea levels. And he’s asking business leaders for their help to make them happen.
→Source: The Boston GlobeElevating Sargent’s Wharf, Columbus, Langone Parks and Long Wharf in “Resilient Boston Harbor” Plan
The City Hall strategy is a step forward in protecting the city from rising sea levels, especially during major storms and flooding events.
→Source: North End WaterfrontWalsh puts focus on missing Greenway link, Morrissey re-design in Chamber speech
Laying out resiliency plans for each of Boston’s waterfront neighborhoods, Walsh envisioned a “resilient, accessible, and connected Dorchester shore,” and called for preventative measures at various high-risk flood points, including Moakley Park on the border of South Boston and Dorchester.
→Source: Dorchester ReporterBoston climate change effects the target of major new public-private effort
Called “Resilient Boston Harbor,” the plan would enlist private developers and other companies as well as nonprofit stakeholders and City Hall in developing and implementing strategies to prevent and to mitigate flooding. In announcing the plan at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce forum, Walsh did not hold back.
→Source: Curbed BostonWalsh Outlines Plan To Protect Boston Harbor From Flooding
Walsh calls his plan not just a comprehensive strategy to protect the city from climate change flooding, but a transformative vision that will add 67 acres of new land to Boston’s 47-mile shoreline.
→Source: WBURMayor Walsh launches citywide plan to protect against coastal flooding
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Wednesday announced a sweeping plan to protect the city’s 47-mile shoreline ahead of a major environmental disaster, calling climate change “an urgent priority” for Boston and urging business leaders to participate in the comprehensive citywide resiliency plan.
→Source: Boston Business JournalVIDEO: Mayor Walsh addresses Boston Chamber, announces climate-ready vision to enhance Boston’s waterfront
→Source: City of BostonRecurring events
- Friends of the East Boston Greenway: →Monthly Meeting
- Friends of the Boston HarborWalk: →Monthly Meeting