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Colorado Resiliency Framework
May 28, 2015
Developed by the Colorado Resiliency and Recovery Office, the Colorado Resiliency Framework identifies strategies to strengthen and increase resiliency to hazards throughout Colorado, providing guiding principles and tools for community stakeholders. The report describes the risk and vulnerabilities faced by the State, adaptive strategies and monitoring metrics for six key resiliency sectors and cross-sectoral strategies identified to be implemented at the State level.
Related Organizations: Colorado Resiliency and Recovery Office
Resource Category: Planning
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European Road Authorities’ Climate Risk Assessment Tools: RIMAROCC and ROADAPT Projects
May 2015
European nations collaborated on two research projects beginning in 2009 to develop a detailed climate change risk assessment methodology and tools for adapting transportation systems and infrastructure. The first project, entitled “RIMAROCC” (Risk Management for Roads in a Changing Climate), produced a risk assessment framework to support decision-making regarding roads in light of climate change impacts. The more recent “ROADAPT” (Roads for Today, Adapted for Tomorrow) project developed guidelines and tools to be used with the RIMAROCC risk assessment framework, to better inform detailed vulnerability and socioeconomic impact assessments, and selection of adaptation strategies.
Resource Category: Assessments
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HB0514/SB0258 Maryland Commission on Climate Change
June 1, 2015
In May 2015, the Maryland legislature passed legislation (HB0514/SB0258) codifying the Maryland Commission on Climate Change. The Commission is charged with advising the Governor and General Assembly on ways to mitigate the causes of, prepare for, and adapt to the consequences of climate change. The measure requires the Commission to establish specified working groups and for the Commission members and working group members to be appointed and the Commission to be convened on or before July 1, 2016.
Related Organizations: State of Maryland, University of Maryland
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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Climate Change Risk Information Disclosure, Insurance, the Private Sector, and the Role of Government
June 2015
This white paper makes recommendations about how risks disclosures can be used by regulators to ensure that insurance is priced to consider future climate risks, and that insurance is sending accurate price signals about the need to adapt.
Related Organizations: University of North Carolina School of Law Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation and Resources (CLEAR), University of North Carolina, Georgetown Climate Center
Author or Affiliated User: Victor B. Flatt
Resource Category: Solutions
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U.S. Clean Water Rule
June 1, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have finalized the Clean Water Rule, designed to protect and restore water sources nationwide. The rule will redevelop clear safeguards against unregulated pollution and destruction for nearly two million miles of streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands in the continental U.S.
Related Organizations: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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State of Corporate Adaptation Survey 2015
June 2015
The University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) and consultant firm Four Twenty Seven, with support from Business for Social Responsibility, launched and published the 2015 Corporate Adaptation report to generate insights into whether and how enterprises are preparing for the physical impacts of climate change. The report is expected to further the collective understanding of best practices, barriers and enablers, and strategies to prepare for climate change in the corporate world.
Related Organizations: Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN)
Resource Category: Assessments
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Monterey County, California Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan
June 2015
Monterey County, California and its twelve incorporated municipalities have integrated climate change into their combined Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. Hazard Mitigation Plans guide state and local efforts to reduce disaster losses of life, property, and infrastructure, including transportation assets. Home to more than 400,000 people, Monterey County sits along the California coast, where it faces numerous climate-connected - often interrelated - threats, including sea-level rise, coastal erosion, flooding, wildfires, and landslides, which can all affect transportation.
Resource Category: Planning
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Keeping North Carolina's Farms and Forests Vibrant and Resilient: An Adaptive Management Planning Strategy
June 2015
The North Carolina Agriculture and Forestry Adaptation Work Group (NC-Adapt) has found that climate change risks to North Carolina’s agriculture and forestry industries warrant expanded and accelerated adaptive management planning. In this report, NC-Adapt reviews summarized climate impacts for the sectors, and outlines an adaptive management plan to improve agriculture and forestry resiliency and economic viability.
Related Organizations: North Carolina Agriculture and Forestry Adaptation Work Group (NC-Adapt)
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Recommendations for assessing the effects of the DOI Hurricane Sandy Mitigation and Resilience Program on ecological system and infrastructure resilience in the Northeast coastal region
June 2015
This report presents metrics for assessing the resilience of natural and artificial coastal features most affected by Hurricane Sandy along the Northeast coast - such as beaches, dunes, wetlands, and grey and green infrastructure. The focal coastal ecological and infrastructure assets identified are Department of the Interior (DOI) funded projects as implemented through the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act. The report establishes a set of ecological performance metrics for detecting changes in resilience resulting from the project actions, and provides recommendations for completing an assessment of how DOI projects have affected the resilience of the Northeastern coast.
Related Organizations: U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)
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City of Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon Climate Action Plan 2015
June 2015
The City of Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon 2015 Climate Action Plan (CAP) presents a plan to reduce local carbon emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 with specific objectives to achieve by 2030. The Plan also identifies over 100 strategies to both reduce local carbon emissions, and adapt to and prepare for climate change in the short-term. The CAP states that its success is dependent on ability to create jobs, advance social equity, improve public health, strengthen natural systems and enhance quality of life, as co-benefits of these mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Related Organizations: City of Portland, Oregon, Multnomah County, Oregon
Resource Category: Planning
