The climate crisis is real. It requires urgent action. As an award-winning, mission-driven company, KLA helps cities, towns and counties across the country meet the moment by taking bold action in their communities.
Since KLA was founded as a woman-owned benefit corporation in 2014, our team has partnered with more than 75 local governments to build their capacity to design and implement aggressive, equitable solutions to climate change. We do this by delivering affordable tools and services to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and communicate climate and sustainability goals and programs.
Recently named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of America’s Faster Growing Private Companies, KLA works specifically with local governments because they can be true catalysts for change.
The KLA team has decades of expertise in strategic climate action, resilience, and sustainability planning, sustainability indicator identification and reporting, climate change vulnerability assessments, hazard mitigation planning, greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, communications and marketing, equity-driven community and stakeholder engagement, change management, facilitation, tool development and evaluation, and training.
From our climate action planning services to our storytelling Dashboard tool, we're solving the climate crisis one community at a time.
KLA’s Vision:
To elevate action to match the urgency of the climate crisis. Our current priority is to drive achievement of the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Our Mission:
To build capacity for local governments to implement aggressive, equitable solutions to climate change.
Our core values are designed to be a true reflection of the way we operate at KLA and how we function as a team. As such, they create the structure for our key performance indicators and ensure we are all always moving in the same direction.
At KLA, we:
Deliver Excellence
- Hold ourselves and our work to the highest standards.
- Go above and beyond to achieve outcomes that further our mission.
- Provide the most relevant and timely climate action guidance to our clients through effective onboarding and ongoing training of team members.
Facilitate Impact
- Make it easy for our clients to prioritize high impact solutions that achieve climate goals.
- Design processes that achieve equitable outcomes.
- Approach challenges with an open mind and seek an array of perspectives to solve them.
Uphold Integrity
- Tackle the climate crisis in a fair and just manner.
- Always act and speak from a place of authenticity and encourage others to do the same.
- Demonstrate our values and endeavor to embrace our mission in all facets of our lives.
Prioritize Innovation
- Focus on outside the box thinking and apply a creative lens to solve the climate crisis.
- Genuine curiosity is a thread that connects all KLA Team members.
- Promote and reward continuous learning in a way that yields results for KLA’s mission and clients.
Share Ownership
- Each KLA Team member takes responsibility for upholding our mission and values.
- Respect our time together by practicing intentional collaboration and communication, being fully present, and openly sharing knowledge and lessons learned.
- Work as a unified team with our clients in a supportive, open, and honest environment.
