Norwalk committee reviews ClimateView climate-data platform; director introduced

Norwalk City Ad Hoc Suitability Committee members heard a Feb. 12 presentation from consultant Nick McCreery of Caramida on ClimateView, a cloud-based climate-data and modeling platform the city could use to track greenhouse-gas inventories, model reduction measures and publish a public-facing dashboard.

McCreery told the committee that he does not work for ClimateView and described his comments as “completely unbiased,” then outlined the platform’s two main benefits: interactive public presentation of a climate action plan and a back-end modeling environment that links actions to emissions outcomes. He demonstrated how ClimateView organizes measures into “transition elements” (for example, increased public transit or more walking and cycling) and how the tool can translate targets for those measures into year-by-year emissions projections.

“[ClimateView] has an excellent display feature where you would be able to actually display what your plan is, your progress on…