Partner News
Stories of Resilience: Voices that Inspire
Do you have a story to tell? We want to learn more about your journey toward climate resilience. Sharing your wins and challenges can help others learn from your experience. You can submit photos, video, audio, text or art about your resilience journey.
Are you ready to share? Visit our Stories of Resilience: Voices that Inspire website for more information.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Seven Best Practices for Risk Communication
Tune in to the NOAA webinar on Nov. 2 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET to hear best practices, techniques, and examples for connecting with diverse audiences and local communities about hazards. Wherever you are in your effort to help communities prepare for hazards, applying risk communication principles will lead to more effective results.
The OCPSC launched a multilingual, multimedia campaign this summer to help communities at higher risk of extreme heat stay safer. OCPSC engaged 121 community-based organizations, ethnic media and other trusted messengers to reach the most vulnerable.
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FEMA Region 3: Coffee Break Webinar on the New Policy Guide Sets Record Attendance
On Sept. 20, FEMA Region 3 hosted the "Providing Clarity on the New Hazard Mitigation Planning Guidance" Coffee Break webinar, which attracted 381 participants, marking the highest attendance in the series since 2017. FEMA Region 3 community planner Matt McCullough led the webinar and gave an overview of the policy elements, discussed expectations, and provided training opportunities.
Announcing the Climate Resilience Fund: Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI)
The Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI) is managed by the Climate Resilience Fund with EcoAdapt, Fernleaf, Geos Institute and The Inner City Fund (ICF) in collaboration with NOAA. CSCI aims to help FEMA Community Disaster Resilience Zone communities prepare for a climate resilient future.
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FEMA Water Summit: An Overview of the Water Resource Conservation Plans in Puerto Rico
On April 27, FEMA's Community Assistance Branch of the Hazard Mitigation Division held a four-session Water Summit to emphasize the importance of water resource conservation in Puerto Rico. They addressed concerns such as stormwater management, landslides, sedimentation, riverbanks erosion, flooding, water quality, loss of natural coastal barriers, and climate change challenges in Puerto Rico. Over 449 participants attended the three initial virtual sessions.
Because of its geographic location, Puerto Rico is especially vulnerable to climate change. The island is becoming more susceptible to extraordinary rain events and frequent heat and drought spells. These issues cause a disproportionate impact on its economy and the livelihood of its residents.
During the fourth session on Oct. 20, FEMA and local partners will present an exchange of ideas. They will emphasize nature-based measures for climate change adaptation and mitigation to aid a resilient recovery in Puerto Rico.
American Flood Coalition: North Carolina and South Carolina Use Budgets to Boost Flood Resilience
Both North and South Carolina used their 2023 legislative sessions to adapt to stronger storms and more frequent flooding. The two states invested tens of millions in new funding to boost flood resilience, while complementing previous resilience initiatives.
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Natural Hazards Center: Making Mitigation Work Webinar Series
The Natural Hazards Center, in partnership with FEMA, is pleased to present the Making Mitigation Work Webinar Series. These are free one-hour webinars featuring innovative speakers and highlighting progress in mitigation policy, practice, and research.
Quantified Ventures: Optimize for Resilience: Cities Coordinate Four Key Elements During Urban Resilience Planning and Implementation
Conversations about how to pay for urban resilience initiatives are often delayed until the tail end of strategy development, which may be too late to make program development decisions that can unlock additional funding and financing. We outline four key elements that urban areas need to process and optimize at the same time to effectively manage and pay for resilience planning and implementation.
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Center for Community Investment: Climate Resilient Fast Track
The Center for Community Investment is now accepting applications for its Climate Resilience Fast Track to be held in spring 2024. The fast track seeks multi-sector teams who are looking to prepare their communities for a resilient and equitable future.
Disaster Recovery Institute International: Registration Open for DRI2024 Resilience Conference
Registration is officially open for DRI2024, the premier event for resilience and business continuity professionals. This event is coming to New Orleans from March 3 - 6, 2024! It offers in-depth educational sessions along with unique networking opportunities. Use code EB24 for early registration rates.
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American Society of Civil Engineers: Dallas’ Able Pump Station Recognized for Engineering Excellence
On Sept.19, the Engineering & Public Works Roadshow series made its third stop, in Dallas, to recognize the award-winning Able Pump Station. The roadshow is a partnership between the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Public Works Association (APWA), and the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). It highlights the meaningful, transformational work of engineers and public works professionals and encourages students and young professionals to pursue rewarding careers in engineering and public works.
American Society of Adaptation Professionals: Join ASAP
Become a member of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals to access essential resources for climate change adaptation and climate resilience professionals. These include educational opportunities and peer learning groups. ASAP convenes more than a dozen peer learning groups on a monthly and quarterly basis on topics like nature-based solutions, funding and finance, policy, collaboration and more.
American Society of Adaptation Professionals: 2023 Climate Service Providers Academy
Hosted by the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, this virtual academy will give you the tools you need to develop higher-quality climate services and help your business succeed in the rapidly evolving climate services marketplace.
FEMA: FEMA Publishes a Proposed Rule for Public Comment on the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard
FEMA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register for revisions to its floodplain management regulations at Title 44 Part 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): Floodplain Management and Protection of Wetlands.
This is a 60-day public comment period open from Oct. 2 – Dec. 1, 2023. The proposed revisions will fully implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The FFRMS increases the resilience of federally funded projects by incorporating anticipated changes in future flood risk into certain federally funded projects to ensure that those projects last as long as intended.
The FFRMS applies to FEMA-funded actions involving new construction, substantial improvement or repairs to substantial damage, as well as to hazard mitigation projects involving structure elevation, dry floodproofing and mitigation reconstruction.
To support implementation of the FFRMS, FEMA has participated in interagency efforts to develop implementation tools such as the March 2023 FFRMS Climate-Informed Science Approach State of the Science Report and the August 2023 FFRMS Floodplain Determination Job Aid.
Since August 2021, FEMA has partially implemented the FFRMS. Partial implementation relies on existing regulations to reduce flood risk, increasing minimum flood elevation requirements for structures in areas already subject to flood risk minimization requirements, but not horizontally expanding those areas. The publication of the proposed rule does not affect FEMA’s current partial implementation of the FFRMS. For additional information on FEMA’s partial implementation of the FFRMS, please see the effective policies for Hazard Mitigation Assistance and Public Assistance.
Union of Concerned Scientists: New Maps Show Inequitable Geography of Danger Season
Altogether, extreme heat, floods, wildfires, and storms have affected most of the population in the United States and its territories since Danger Season started on May 1. In fact, as of Sept. 6, 96% of people in the U.S. have faced at least one of these alerts. But these impacts are inequitably distributed across the social and physical geography of Danger Season.
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Union of Concerned Scientists: Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting and Less Reliable
Climate change smothered us in heat this season, here in the United States and across much of the world. But it has not affected us as equals: some of us can stay relatively safe and cool while many of us cannot and suffer instead. With summer largely over, a priority in the coming cooler months should be to use this respite to build equitable resilience to next year’s inevitable deadly heat.
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