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Norwalk City sustainability director outlines expanded resilience plan, aims for draft by May
Summary
Joe "Jody" DiTerrelet, Norwalk City's director of sustainability, told the Sustainability Committee Jan. 14 that he is updating the 2024 climate plan into a nine-sector Sustainability and Resilience Plan, using ICLEI's ClearPath 2 inventory tools, a community task force of more than 50 volunteers and a decision framework; he said the draft should be completed by May 2026.
Joe "Jody" DiTerrelet, the city's director of sustainability, presented an expanded Sustainability and Resilience Plan to the Norwalk City Sustainability Committee on Jan. 14, saying the 2024 greenhouse-gas inventory underlying the earlier plan covered only "about 26% of our citywide emissions" and that a broader approach is needed to meet state targets.
DiTerrelet said the revised plan will be organized into nine sectors (energy, mobility, buildings, waste, natural resources, health and happiness, disaster preparedness and recovery, city operations, and community engagement), include a SWOT and materiality assessment, and set sector-specific metrics, goals and neighborhood-level recommendations. "We have access to their ClearPath 2 software program," he said, referring to ICLEI's emissions accounting tools, which the city has joined to improve inventory accuracy.
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