U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

team. The scorecards help resource managers make decisions about how to invest limited state funding into the most ecologically important projects. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Wi ...

aid organizations needed unbiased estimates of domestic food production to coordinate food assistance programs. The Famine Early Warning System Network. Leaders turned to the Famine Early Warning Syst ...

Research Consortium (CIRC) RISA team and the Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC). Funding for Integrated Scenarios came from RISA, the Climate Science Centers, and the U.S. Department of Agricu ...

had already spent millions of dollars on flood mitigation programs. In the aftermath of this disaster, city officials knew it was time to be even more proactive. To help prevent a repeat of this trage ...

Simulating extreme precipitation. NOAA’s Sectoral Applications Research Program provided funding to scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to build a tool that would allow communities to a ...

efforts, installation of fish passages, construction of a conveyance pipeline and a drought-relief pumping plant, and $100 million of river and stream restoration projects to benefit fish species. Pro ...

Columbia County’s climate resilience, and her success is convincing municipal partners and funding agencies to join the effort. ...

Francisco, California. The Marin Carbon Project works with agricultural land managers, under funding through the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) Conservati ...

communities. The nearby Red Dog Mine, which employs some Kivalina residents, is providing funding for the project's reactor, demonstrating how public-private partnerships can help both parties thrive ...

especially in coastal regions. These relocations, and the lack of governance mechanisms or funding to support them, are causing loss of community and culture, health impacts, and economic decline. Re ...