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![Reforming Energy Facilities Siting]()
Reforming Energy Facilities Siting
CBI helped streamline and expand stakeholder input to New Hampshire’s siting process for renewable energy generation and other energy facilities.
November 14, 2017
CBI and Raab Associates design and facilitate a state-wide process for New Hampshire citizens to improve the state's energy siting process for the legislature, leading to the passage of a new widely-supported energy siting law.
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![Developing Organizational Governance and Strategy in San Francisco]()
Developing Organizational Governance and Strategy in San Francisco
CBI facilitates structural and directional refinements to the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee.
November 14, 2017
CBI facilitates an organizational planning and restructuring effort for the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee aimed at improving it's efficacy around issues of climate change and economic development.
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![Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation]()
Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation
CBI organizes and facilitates a complex negotiation across natural gas industry.
November 14, 2017
CBI facilitates negotiations among natural gas producers, pipelines, and distribution companies on possible changes to the long-standing protocols for scheduling the flow of gas to customers.
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![Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru]()
Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru
CBI partners with the UNDP and Peru’s Defensoria del Pueblo to deliver a framework for mediated conflict engagement.
November 14, 2017
CBI assists the United Nations Development Programme in Peru in developing and delivering a course on consensus building to build the mediation capacity of the Peruvian Public Defenders Office, Defensoria del Pueblo.
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![Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality]()
Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality
CBI used public engagement and stakeholder input to improve water quality planning in a vulnerable coastal region on Cape Cod.
November 14, 2017
The Cape Cod Commission asks CBI to facilitate citizen engagement in a process to develop a regional plan to address the region's wastewater management problems, and generate a more effective and efficient regulatory environment for watershed plannng.
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![Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell]()
Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell
CBI collaborates with Shell to build community stakeholder engagement capacity.
November 14, 2017
CBI collaborates with Shell to build community stakeholder engagement capability through leading a customized training; creating an interactive, multimedia curricula; and helping company leaders bolster internal training resources.
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![Protecting Whales and Fishing Interests in Hawaii]()
Protecting Whales and Fishing Interests in Hawaii
When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harmed the local false killer whale population, mediators helped negotiators devise rules to protect the endangered species without cramping the fleet’s livelihood.
November 14, 2017
When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harms the local false killer whale population, CBI and CONCUR facilitate negotiations that lead to full consensus on management changes and research activities to reduce whale takes while preserving the fishing fleet's financial viability.
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![Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning]()
Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning
March 24, 2017
CBI works closely with the Northeast Regional Planning Body to gather meaningful feedback from stakeholders as it develops a regional ocean plan.
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![Consensus Building When Democracy Hits a Rough Patch]()
Consensus Building When Democracy Hits a Rough Patch
March 24, 2017
CBI takes a hard look at how efforts to bring diverse stakeholders together on challenging national issues will be affected by the polarized atmosphere in Washington.
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![Unique Partnership Fosters Innovation on Tough National Issues]()
Unique Partnership Fosters Innovation on Tough National Issues
March 24, 2017
CBI and Convergence are blending their expertise to work with national leaders on some of the most complex policy issues of our time.
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![E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One)]()
E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One)
October 13, 2016
Editing a major planning document from a multi-stakeholder process with thousands of comments over multiple drafts can be a nightmare. Here are some tips on getting it done.
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![Community Protocols: Can They Be a Tool for More Balanced, Interest-Based Negotiation Between Companies, Communities, and Governments?]()
Community Protocols: Can They Be a Tool for More Balanced, Interest-Based Negotiation Between Companies, Communities, and Governments?
May 27, 2016
Based on CBI's work to better understand how greater transparency around extractives revenues might affect Indigenous Peoples, this blog explores whether community protocols could be used to help bridge the gap among community members, government agencies, and extractive companies.
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