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Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit

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Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit

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Georgetown Climate Center: Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy ToolkitThe Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) 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.

Many local governments and community-based practitioners are incorporating principles of equity into their climate adaptation planning and implementation. This toolkit will further explore how cities are moving beyond equitable adaptation planning and implementing policies that address both social equity and climate resilience.

The toolkit is intended to aid local governments and community-based organizations nationwide that are centering equity in their adaptation initiatives. In comparing promising practices and case studies across cities, the toolkit draws lessons from different approaches and provides frameworks to help practitioners craft similar legal and policy options for their own jurisdictions in ways that will help them advance equitable responses to the impacts of climate change.

Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit is available on the Adaptation Clearinghouse website, a project of the Georgetown Climate Center and its partners.

Click here to view the resource.

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