A Better City

Business Description

A Better City represents a multi-sector group of nearly 130 business leaders united around a common vision: to create a more vibrant, competitive, sustainable, and equitable city and region for all.

Our mission is to engage the Greater Boston business community and civic institutions in developing solutions and influencing policy through research and collaboration on transportation, climate, and land use issues.

Some of our green programs:

Driving Carbon Reductions
A Better City is helping Boston’s commercial real estate and business sectors reduce carbon emissions through both demand-side and supply-side innovations. The goal: to reduce carbon emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 and to 80% below by 2050.

Building Climate Resiliency
As the climate changes, our infrastructure must evolve as well. Greater Boston and Massachusetts must make its infrastructure resilient to climate change hazards like extreme temperature, rising seas and coastal storms.
A Better City is working with multiple stakeholders to monitor climate change projections, educate constituents, and provide adaptation tools and resources for decisions and planning around development.

Building Resiliency Toolkit
The Building Resiliency Toolkit provides information on potential structural interventions that can make commercial building more resilient to climate change.