Secured 8 Climate Emergency Declarations across Florida municipalities (2019–2021).

TALLAHASSEE INITIATIVES

• City of Tallahassee commits to Equity criteria for their Clean Energy Plan (2021)
• Policy Brief: Childhood Hunger in Leon County Brief (2021)
• We’re fighting the climate crisis – and the Florida Legislature’s anti-free speech bill | READ ARTICLE By Marquelle Ogletree and Nia Ogletree. Marquelle Ogletree is a University of Florida freshman studying sociology and has a strong passion for social justice and government policy. Nia Ogletree is a senior in the IB Program at Rickards High School, who plans to pursue a college degree in environmental science and policy. Both are GenCLEO youth leaders with The CLEO Institute, and climate speakers. (2021)

TAMPA INITIATIVES

• Policy Brief: Food Scarcity in Tampa (2021)
• City of Tampa committed to 100% Clean Energy by 2035 (2021)

ORANGE COUNTY INITIATIVES

Helped pass The Rights of Nature Charter Amendment in Orange County. (2020)

MIAMI INITIATIVES

• Miami Dade County schools committed to 100% renewable energy by 2030 (2021)
• City of Miami’s new budget increases funding for the resilience department (2021)
• Do not expand the Urban Development Boundary in South Dade. It’s needless and destructive | READ MORE By Diane Lockwood and Gianna Trocino. Gianna Trocino is policy and campaigns manager for The Cleo Institute. (2021)
• Senator René García was the prime sponsor of a resolution urging United States County Attorney President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to reconsider his revocation of the presidential permit previously issued for the Keystone XL Pipeline. The CLEO Institute sent out an action alert to local residents prompting over 500 emails to the Board of County Commissioners in less than 24 hours. We are proud to announce the Board did not pass this resolution. (2021)
• Helped extend eviction and power shut-off moratoriums at a local, state, and federal level during COVID-19. (2020)
• Helped pass the Miami-Dade County bus system redesign. (2020)
• Helped prevent the defunding of the Office of Resilience and Sustainability, and advocated for the creation of a community-based action group. (2020)
• Helped build equity criteria into the assessment tool for the Regional Climate Action Plan (RCAP) for the Southeast Florida Climate Change Compact, which measures the region’s climate resilience progress. (2020)
• Restored 65% of Metrobus & Metrorail services/ funding from the MDC proposed $25 million transit cuts (2017).
• Successfully advocated against 2 resolutions that would make it easier to change the Comprehensive Development Master Plan to allow for development outside the Urban Development Boundary (2017).
• Secured an additional $250,00 (totaling $1 million) to fund tree canopy in MDC (2017).
• Advocated for a resolution supporting solar purchasing co-ops (2017).
• Acknowledgment for the early endorsement of the $200 million GO Bond (General Obligation Bond) in the City of Miami for sea-level rise, which passed (2017).
• Supported the adoption of a resolution banning well stimulation (including the process known as fracking) for oil or gas exploration. The legislation prohibits land use for any process that involves injecting fluid into a rock formation (2016).
• Supported the ordinance which bans polystyrene (Styrofoam) in parks and beaches (2016).
• Successfully led the effort to create and fund the position of the Chief Resilience Officer, as well as the Office of Resilience in Miami-Dade County (MDC)(2015).
• Secured $500,000 in funding for the engineering expertise needed to develop robust preliminary engineering and facilities plan to address sea-level rise in MDC (2015).