This report is about how we live in New Orleans and the steps we can take to achieve equity through citywide action on climate change. In our city, African Americans, other people of color, low income families and individuals, the elderly and youth face various forms of inequity and are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The National Climate Assessment warns that "low-income communities, some communities of color, children, and the elderly," are at great risk of climate change that can "exacerbate existing social and economic inequalities..." And, according to the UN panel of climate scientists, the impacts of climate change will be devastating if action is not taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by fifty percent by the year 2030. These are warnings we cannot ignore"