King County-Cities Climate Collaboration

King County and seventeen partners — Bellevue, Burien, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, Lake Forest Park, Mercer Island, Normandy Park, Port of Seattle, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Seattle, Shoreline, Snoqualmie, and Tukwila — are collaborating through the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) to coordinate and enhance the effectiveness of local government climate and sustainability action.

Through the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C), county and city staff are partnering on:

• Outreach – to develop, refine, and utilize messaging and tools for climate change outreach to engage decision makers, other cities, and the general public
• Coordination – to adopt consistent standards, benchmarks, strategies, and overall goals related to responding to climate change
• Solutions – to share local success stories, challenges, data and products that support and enhance climate mitigation efforts by all partners
• Funding and resources – to secure grant funding and other shared resource opportunities to support climate related projects and programs

All King County cities are encouraged to join into this effort, which is supporting and enhancing projects and programs in focus areas such as green building, using and producing renewable energy, sustainability outreach and education, and alternative transportation.

 

Photo of Elected Officials at the June 10th, 2019 King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) Elected Official Work Session

K4C focus areas

• In 2019, the K4C updated its Joint Climate Action Commitments (326 KB PDF). Implementing these actions will help get the region on track towards shared and ambitious climate targets. In 2020, K4C partners are working through formal processes to secure support for these commitments and the list of signatories is growing.
• K4C climate action toolkit overview – 108 KB PDF

K4C – map of current partners (as of April 2019)

K4C co-chairs

Matt Kuharic, Senior Climate Change Specialist
King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks Director's Office
206-477-4554 (office)

Nicole Sanders , Climate & Long Range Senior Planner
City of Snoqualmie Planning Department
425-888-5337 ext.1143

For more information about the K4C:

You can read recent news and sign up for email updates on King County and K4C climate work at this webpage.

Special thanks to former Antioch University Graduate Student Linda Lyshall. Her research helped lead to the formation of the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration.

See also: Lyshall, Linda (2011). Collaboration and Climate Action at the Local Scale. Doctoral Dissertation, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH. Retrieved from OhioLink Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Center.