Accelerating resiliency planning in communities across the Commonwealth
The National Economic Transition Platform helps leaders establish the community and worker development programs needed as we transition away from coal.
The Nature Conservancy produced this guide in 2015 in order to provide a comprehensive framework on incorporating ecosystem valuation into restoration projects. The Guide covers advantages
The World Economic Forum proposes a stimulus program that directs spending toward nature-positive opportunities
Virginia can eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 in an achievable and affordable way, providing a net benefit to the state’s economy.
Helping local communities build climate resilience can reap huge rewards for state governments.
2022 Year in Review; VADOT Resilience Plan; Climate-Proof Towns; Community Flood Preparedness Fund Grant Awards; Economic Development Funding; Events; more.
The Mid-Atlantic Climate Data Tools websit offers data tools and climate summaries that detail seasonal weather and climate variability and change in the Mid-Atlantic region.
On December 15th, local and regional speakers will provide information about resilience hub initiatives and their benefit for community safety when disasters occur. This final Fall Resiliency Academy session is especially relevant for our communities as we deal with increased disruption from more frequent severe weather, flooding, and power outages.
Back to Lynchburg Rising Meeting Notes Environmental Justice, Neighborhood Strengths & Assets What does environmental justice mean to you? Everything being equal Respecting your neighbors
The National Economic Transition Platform helps leaders establish the community and worker development programs needed as we transition away from coal.
The Nature Conservancy produced this guide in 2015 in order to provide a comprehensive framework on incorporating ecosystem valuation into restoration projects. The Guide covers advantages
The World Economic Forum proposes a stimulus program that directs spending toward nature-positive opportunities
Virginia can eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 in an achievable and affordable way, providing a net benefit to the state’s economy.
Helping local communities build climate resilience can reap huge rewards for state governments.
2022 Year in Review; VADOT Resilience Plan; Climate-Proof Towns; Community Flood Preparedness Fund Grant Awards; Economic Development Funding; Events; more.
The Mid-Atlantic Climate Data Tools websit offers data tools and climate summaries that detail seasonal weather and climate variability and change in the Mid-Atlantic region.
On December 15th, local and regional speakers will provide information about resilience hub initiatives and their benefit for community safety when disasters occur. This final Fall Resiliency Academy session is especially relevant for our communities as we deal with increased disruption from more frequent severe weather, flooding, and power outages.
Back to Lynchburg Rising Meeting Notes Environmental Justice, Neighborhood Strengths & Assets What does environmental justice mean to you? Everything being equal Respecting your neighbors
Speakers will lay out the current state of financing responses to climate change, discuss adaptation risks, and explore novel mechanisms to leverage financial systems to meet our climate goals.
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Join Virginia Forage and Grassland Council (VFGC) for an in-depth look making, buying, and using quality hay and baleage. Featured speakers include Chris Teutsch, Extension forage specialist with University of Kentucky, and Jessica Williamson,…
The Southeast Climate monthly webinar series is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 10:00 am ET. This series is hosted by the Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC), the National Integrated Drought Information…
This exclusive online event will bring together two leading experts a climate scientist, and a climate psychologist to explore the critical climate issues that will shape our future.
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Resilient Virginia has issued an RFP for a part-time Community Engagement Consultant for work in Lynchburg, Va.
US EPA maintains a website that focuses on essential information for coastal communities planning for the effects of climate change.
EcoAdapt conducted a survey with the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge to determine if and how people working to address displacement pressures are considering the effects of climate change. This survey is part of a broader project in collaboration with the Urban Displacement Project to better understand the intersections between climate change and displacement pressures.
Managed retreat is the coordinated process of voluntarily and equitably relocating people, structures, and infrastructure away from vulnerable coastal areas in response to episodic or chronic threats to facilitate the transition of individual people, communities, and ecosystems (both species and habitats) inland.
The Georgetown Climate Center maintains the Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit, which highlights best and emerging practice examples of how cities are addressing disproportionate socioeconomic risk to climate impacts and engaging overburdened communities.