News &
Updates from
the
Georgetown Climate Center
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Now
Available: Managed Retreat Toolkit
for
state and local governments
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Communities across the U.S. are facing urgent
challenges from sea-level rise and climate impacts; a new report from
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration documented
the increasing frequency of "sunny-day" flooding in
coastal areas, and recent analysis by
the First Street Foundation suggests that millions
more U.S. homes are at risk of catastrophic flooding than
previously estimated. Communities and states are increasingly
considering managed retreat – the voluntary movement of
communities and transition of ecosystems away from vulnerable
coastal areas – as a strategy for protecting people, infrastructure,
buildings, and coastal ecosystems from the impacts of climate
change.
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To help state and local policymakers who are
considering managed retreat, the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC)
this week released the Managed Retreat
Toolkit. The first comprehensive online legal and
policy resource on managed retreat, the toolkit combines legal
and policy tools, best and emerging practices, and case studies
to support peer learning, public engagement, and decisionmaking
around managed retreat and climate adaptation.
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On July 15, GCC hosted a launch webinar that drew
more than 450 attendees. Featured speakers included Fawn McGee of
the New Jersey Blue Acres Program and Liz Williams Russell of the
Foundation for Louisiana, who discussed their experiences working
with communities to implement retreat strategies. The Blue Acres Program
and LA SAFE,
which the Foundation for Louisiana helps implement, are both
featured in case studies in the Managed Retreat Toolkit. (Watch the recorded
webinar here.)
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The toolkit features more than 70 case studies from
communities across the US that have begun engaging with managed
retreat strategies. GCC also released Managing the
Retreat from Rising Seas, a
companion publication that presents 17 case studies in
greater depth.
GCC developed the Managed Retreat Toolkit in concert
with leading state, local, and federal policymakers, academic
leaders, and people from affected communities. Between 2018 and
2020, GCC’s outreach efforts related to the development of the
Managed Retreat Toolkit have engaged more than 1,000 people at
more than 20 events, a testament to the growing interest in this
important topic.
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Register
Now: GCC's Equitable Adaptation
Legal
& Policy Toolkit launches July 29
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Please join the Georgetown Climate Center on
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, for a webinar launching GCC’s new Equitable
Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit, an online
resource for community-based organizations and state and local
governments working to put frontline communities first.
The GCC team will provide an overview of the
toolkit's contents and how it was developed. The webinar will
also feature speakers Jalonne White-Newsome (Kresge Foundation),
Mayra Cruz (Catalyst Miami), and Melissa Deas (D.C. Dept. of
Energy & Environment).
The Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit
explores best emerging practices, legal and policy tools, and
case studies to help state and local governments work with
frontline communities to develop and implement equitable climate
adaptation solutions.
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Vicki
Arroyo joins Amy Holm of
The
Climate Registry for latest episode of
Coffee
with Climate Leaders
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Executive Director Vicki Arroyo joined Amy Holm,
Executive Director of The Climate Registry for a conversation on
GCC's work promoting state and federal climate action in the
latest installment of Coffee with
Climate Leaders, a video series highlighting the
climate work continuing even in light of the global pandemic.
Vicki shares the state action progressing on clean and resilient
transportation through the bipartisan Transportation and Climate
Initiative, a coalition of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states
facilitated by GCC. She also discusses some proposed
climate-related federal legislation, including making climate
resilience and clean energy and transportation a priority in
climate, infrastructure and COVID-19 relief legislation. The interview is
available now on YouTube and on The Climate
Registry's website.
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