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The Climate Emergency Action Coalition (CEAC) is a group of youth climate activists based in Mount Desert Island (MDI), Maine. The group was formed in November, 2019 as a coalition of students from Mount Desert Island High School's ECOteam, and the College of the Atlantic's sustainability group, [Earth].
Membership
[edit]Organizations
[edit]CEAC is a coalition comprised of several climate groups local to MDI, including the MDI High School ECOteam [citation needed], [Earth], and A Climate to Thrive. Due to the high turnover rate of high schools and colleges, CEAC's membership is constantly growing and evolving.
Founders
[edit]Activities
[edit]The Climate Emergency Action Coalition has been working to pass Climate Emergency Declarations in several towns on MDI, and their current goal is to get Hancock County to declare a Climate Emergency, before moving to the state level.
Bar Harbor
[edit]CEAC was first formed to pass a Climate Emergency Declaration in the MDI town of Bar Harbor. After the group presented the Declaration to their local Town Council, it was passed 5-1 [1]. Following the advice of the Town Council, CEAC then hosted a series of stakeholder meetings to gauge community buy-in on the creation of a Town Task Force on Climate. In January of 2020, CEAC went back to the Bar Harbor Town Council and asked them to form a Town Task Force, the creation of which was approved [2].
In March of 2020, the Climate Emergency Task Force appointees were finalized and the first meeting was held on June 22nd. Sirohi Kumar, a member of CEAC, currently serves as the Youth Representative on the Task Force.
Mount Desert
[edit]Southwest Harbor
[edit]See also
[edit]Outside affiliations
[edit]CEAC is an active member of Maine Youth for Climate Justice, a coalition of youth activists around Maine fighting for climate justice. CEAC also has ties to the Coastal Youth Climate Coalition, a group of decentralized youth aiming to uplift the work of smaller and more local climate groups across Maine.