Summer 2014: CBI in Action

Our Practitioners Have Been Busy...

>> Assessing and designing a US-Pakistan Legislators Forum to improve mutual understanding, build relationships and develop new initiatives, jointly with Convergence

>> Assisting the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and its partners with the development a new Long-Range Interpretative Plan and updated Strategic Action Plan, working with cultural resource planner Ginny Binder 

>> Convening a national forum on Oil and Gas Revenue for Development with 24 Nigerian Leaders, jointly with the New Nigeria Foundation

>> Working with the town of Orleans. MA as it launches a stakeholder process to seek consensus on a water quality management plan, drawing on Cape Cod's new regional water quality planning approach

>> Working with the Northeast Regional Ocean Council to lead stakeholder engagement efforts related to northeast regional ocean planning

>> Facilitating a high-level internal workshop on social and environmental impacts of transformational projects with the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman

>> Supporting scientists and resource managers in the Hudson River with a five-year project on how to ecologically enhance engineered shorelines in that unique ecosystem

>> Launching a new, global Stakeholder Response Mechanism for the United Nations Development Program

>> Facilitating meetings intended to help U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state resource managers, the American Wind Energy Association and a consortium of wind energy developers collaboratively draft a multi-species (bats and birds) habitat conservation plan

>> Facilitating the first Caloosahatchee River Forum where stakeholders considered a host of potential projects that might help improve the river in the next five to ten years

>> Engaging the public and stakeholders in decision-making in the multi-decade process of decommissioning Vermont Yankee nuclear plant located in Windham County, VT