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Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters - Albuquerque, NM
January 1, 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico is engaging partners in the community, private sector, and technical centers to inform opportunities for making the city more resilient and efficient. The report describes the city's priority hazards and its vulnerability to a variety of natural disasters and other emergency situations, while the two primary issues discussed are water and wildfires. This report outlines how the city's governance structure is handling these programs and climate related impacts.
Related Organizations: The World Bank, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
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Cool Surfaces and Shade Trees to Reduce Energy Use and Improve Air Quality in Urban Areas
2001
This article, published in Elsevier in 2002, outlines how cool surfaces (cool roofs and cool pavements) and urban trees can have a substantial effect on urban air temperature and, hence, can reduce cooling-energy use and smog. Using a dozen metropolitan cities as case studies, this paper demonstrates an estimate of about 20% of the national cooling demand can be avoided through a large-scale implementation of heat-island mitigation measures. This amounts to 40 TWh/ year savings, worth over $4B per year by 2015, in cooling-electricity savings alone.
Related Organizations: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Authors or Affiliated Users: H. Akbari, M. Pomerantz, H. Taha
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Let's Talk Climate: Messages to Motivate Americans
November 24, 2015
ecoAmerica has developed market-tested messages about climate change solutions to engage Americans across political and demographic groups. This climate messaging platform employs research methods to test specific words, phrases, and narratives that link climate change to mainstream American values and concerns. ecoAmerica also created several thematic messages to tap into personal interests and affiliations including: Health, Faith, Business, Communities, and Higher Education.
Related Organizations: ecoAmerica
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City of Philadelphia Stormwater Incentives/ Grants
2016
The City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has created a suite of subsidies, grants and rebates for both residential and non-residential properties to encourage more stormwater retention and green infrastructure practices. The Stormwater Management Incentives Program and the Greened Acre Retrofit Program offer a reduced price for qualified non-residential customers and contractors to design and install stormwater best management practices which reduce stormwater pollution and enhance water quality.
Related Organizations: City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Urban Lands Institute: Returns on Resilience Initiative
May 2016
The Urban Land Institute’s Returns on Resilience project features case studies on real estate developments that incorporate resilient design measures while maintaining positive business outcomes.
Related Organizations: Urban Land Institute
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NWF - Natural Defenses in Action: Harnessing Nature to Protect Our Communities
June 21, 2016
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) report, Natural Defenses in Action, discusses the role that nature-based approaches can play in reducing the impacts of weather and other climate-related hazards. The report contains 12 detailed case studies demonstrating how communities across the country are already successfully using nature-based infrastructure to protect against flooding, coastal storms, erosion, and wildfire. The report concludes that these nature-based approaches can be more cost-effective than traditional, man-made hazard-mitigation structures and measures, while offering additional environmental benefits.
Related Organizations: National Wildlife Federation
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Green Infrastructure Projects
2016
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is implementing multiple green infrastructure projects based on their Urban Watershed Assessment, which will identify green and grey sewer infrastructure improvements over the next twenty years. The SFPUC recognizes that the sewer system, treating both sewage and stormwater runoff, was not built to withstand the impacts of climate change - such as intense rainstorms that overwhelm the system. The watershed-based planning process is being used to help plan the City’s Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP), a multi-billion dollar project to to upgrade aging infrastructure, and ensure the reliability and performance of the sewer system.
Related Organizations: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, City and County of San Francisco, California
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Living Shorelines: From Barriers to Opportunities
June 18, 2015
A report from Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE), “Living Shorelines: From Barriers to Opportunities,” provides a national assessment of institutional barriers that are preventing broader use of living shorelines, and gives recommendations and strategies for progress.
Related Organizations: Restore America’s Estuaries
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ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability: Climate Resilient Communities Program
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Climate Resilient Communities (CRC) Program is the first comprehensive, national climate adaptation program tailored to local governments. The CRC works with cities, towns, and counties to increase their resilience to climate change impacts, and in the process save money and create safer, healthier communities.
Related Organizations: ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
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Austin, Texas: Preparing for Water Scarcity and Drought
August 19, 2015
This case study, developed by the Georgetown Climate Center, discusses how Austin city agencies are preparing for climate change impacts to water supply and increasing drought. It examines how city agencies are developing a city adaptation plan, assessing climate change risks across sectors, establishing of a Water Resource Planning Task Force, and developing recommendations to address long-term reductions in the city’s water supply in response to recent city council resolutions. The case study also explores lessons learned from Austin's climate preparedness activities, including how cities can create an interagency task force to coordinate adaptation efforts across silos, partner with academic institutions to develop local climate projections, and link adaptation initiatives with efforts to mitigate or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Related Organizations: Georgetown Climate Center
Author or Affiliated User: Aaron Ray
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