Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Milestone
4
Implement
Preparedness
Plan
Pre-Milestone One:
Getting Started
START
Milestone Four:
The 5 Milestone Adaptation Planning Process
Implement Preparedness Plan
Miami
Dade
County,
FL:
● Adapta7on
and
mi7ga7on
planning
together
● Created
a
climate
change
advisory
task
force
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● Working
on
regional
preparedness
through
Southeast
Florida
Climate
Change
Compact
Homer,
AK:
● Adapta7on
and
mi7ga7on
planning
together
● Strong
science
based
climate
impacts
assessment
● Effec7ve
adapta7on
strategy
of
making
sure
changes
being
made
today
consider
long
term
climate
change
Other Adaptation Resources
Fact Sheets
Mitigation-Adaptation Connection: Milestones, Synergies and
Contradictions
Financing Climate Change Adaptation
Preserving Assets in At-Risk Municipalities: Financial Strategies for
Climate Change Adaptation
Other Resources
Adaptation email newsletter
Adaptation blog posts
Public health webinars
Webinar series on adaptation
Adaptation talking points
Link to climate adaptation resources from around the nation
Expert Insights
Steering
Commi5ee
of
local
governments
Experts
Advisory
Commi5ee
Integra7on
with
STAR‐Community
Index
Interna7onal
adapta7on
survey
New Tool:
Adaptation Resource Toolbox (ART)
“Streamlining Access to Climate Adaptation Information”
Objective:
A central repository for tools, resources, information,
organizations, and funding available from federal, state,
and non-profits
Focus:
Local governments in Connecticut, with potential to
expand regionally or nationally
Integrating Climate into Hazard
Mitigation Planning in Lewes, DE
Objective:
Working with Hazard Mitigation Committee and
community stakeholders, understand how
community is already vulnerable and how
climate change is likely to exacerbate those
vulnerabilities
Outcomes:
Natural hazard and climate change vulnerability
assessment
Selection of 3-5 strategies for increasing resilience
to climate change and natural hazards
Devise implementation strategies for each activity –
working with implementers and get strategies
approved by City Council
Regional Sea Level Rise Adaptation
Planning in the San Diego Bay
Objective:
Understand existing and future
vulnerabilities to sea level rise in the
built, natural, social, and economic
systems within the San Diego Bay.
Outcomes:
Sea level rise vulnerability assessment
for the Bay
Identification of strategies to increase
regional resilience to sea level rise
Formation of partnerships
What’s Next?
• Continue to develop tools and resources that are responsive
to local needs
– Communicating climate change
– Integrating climate into existing planning processes
– Indicators of success
• Your ideas?
Questions?
Missy Stults
Adaptation Manager – ICLEI USA
www.icleiusa.org/adaptation