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Limiting the Federal Government's Fiscal Exposure by Better Managing Climate Change Risks
February 11, 2015
This assessment, prepared by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), is included in the GAO’s 2015 High Risk Report that identifies agencies and program areas that are high risk due to their vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or are most in need of transformation.
Related Organizations: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience
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Beyond Traffic: Trends and Choices 2045
February 2, 2015
From the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Beyond Traffic discusses the effects of climate change over the next 30 years, including global mean sea level rise, temperature increases, and more frequent and intense storm events, as impacts on highways, bridges, public transportation, coastal ports and waterways. Released in Draft format, the DOT is asking for feedback with the intention of producing a final version later in 2015.
Related Organizations: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
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Climate Change Research Plan for California
February 2015
The Climate Change Research Plan presents priorities for the next 3-5 years (from late 2014) for policy-relevant, California-specific climate change research, and determines California’s most critical climate-related research gaps.
Resource Category: Planning
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Maine's Climate Future: 2015 Update
February 2015
Maine’s Climate Future 2015 focuses on past, present, and future trends for key climate change impacts in Maine including temperature, precipitation, ocean temperature, ocean acidification, and sea level rise. Detailed examples of how Maine directly experiences each of these impacts are given.
Related Organizations: Maine Department of Environmental Protection
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Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)
April 21, 2015
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) from Unidata is a Java-based software framework for analyzing and visualizing geoscience data.
Related Organizations: National Science Foundation (NSF), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Resource Category: Data and tools
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South Florida Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Pilot Project: Final Report
April 10, 2015
From 2013 to 2015, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored climate resilience pilot studies by partnering with State Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). The FHWA’s Climate Change Resilience Pilots were designed to conduct climate change and extreme weather vulnerability assessments of transportation infrastructure and to analyze options for adapting and improving resiliency. This report presents the results of the FHWA pilot study in the southeast Florida region of Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties.
Related Organizations: Monroe County Planning and Environmental Resources Department , Miami-Dade County, Florida, Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization, Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization, Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Monroe County, Florida
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Sustainable City pLAn - Los Angeles, California
April 8, 2015
City of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti released the Sustainable City pLAn to provide a roadmap for a Los Angeles that is “environmentally healthy, economically prosperous, and equitable in opportunity for all. ” The pLAn is a guide to sustainability policies and actions for all City departments, now and over the next 20 years. A complimentary pLAn website was developed to share the document itself and the vision behind it, as well as to present information on each of the City’s sustainability goals.
Related Organizations: City of Los Angeles, California
Resource Category: Planning
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From Boom to Bust? Climate Risk in the Golden State
April 2, 2015
The report “From Boom to Bust: Climate Risk in the Golden State,” was commissioned by the Risky Business Project, a collection of business and policy leaders dedicated to publicizing the economic costs of unabated climate change. The group is chaired by environmentalist donor Tom Steyer, ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Henry Paulson Jr., a former Treasury Secretary.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Jamesine Rogers Gibson, James Barba, Fiona Kinniburgh
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Coastal GeoTools Conference Series
April 2, 2015
Coastal GeoTools provides a network for sharing technical information relevant to the nation's coastal programs. The Abstracts and Presentations from the most recent Coastal GeoTools Conference in 2015 is a database of conference materials, providing information on geospatial data, tools, technology, and information for coastal resource management professionals.
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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New York State Water Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2015
March 31, 2015
Under the New York State (NYS) 2015 - 2016 budget agreement approved on March 31, 2015 by the state legislature and Governor Cuomo’s administration, $200 million will be allocated to the NYS Water Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2015 to assist municipalities in funding water quality infrastructure projects - some of which is earmarked for sea level rise resiliency projects.
Related Organizations: New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation, New York State Department of Health
Resource Category: Law and Governance
