The City of Iowa City, along with partner cities Lincoln, Nebraska, and Columbia, Missouri, has received a grant to begin developing tools to assess and manage carbon drawdown efforts.
The grant was awarded by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN). The project lead for Iowa City will be Brenda Nations, the City’s Climate Action Coordinator. Other partners in the project are the Urban Drawdown Initiative (UDI) and the Trust for Public Land (TPL).
Many climate action efforts focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; however, slowing climate change will also...