Full Title: Guide To Public-Private Collaboration On City Climate Resilience Planning
Author(s): Ashley Lawson, Katy Maher, Janet Peace
Publisher(s): Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Publication Date: May 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
Climate change is causing increased temperatures, sea level rise, more intense extreme weather events, and other impacts across the United States. More cities are recognizing these risks and taking steps to increase their resilience to current and future impacts. At the same time, many businesses are also identifying and acting on climate risks. While guidance exists to help each of these sectors improve their climate resilience, there is no guidance on why and how they can work together to improve resilience planning. This report fills that gap.
Building on our previous research on resilience planning in large companies, C2ES worked with pilot cities across the country to understand how to best promote city-business collaboration. C2ES brought together local government and business officials in Kansas City, Mo.; Miami Beach, Fla.; Phoenix; and Providence, R.I., to assess each city’s climate preparedness and prioritize resilience needs using the Disaster Resilience Scorecard, a free, public tool developed by IBM and AECOM. This report is informed primarily by the experiences of these cities, which are diverse in geography, size, climate threats, and economic make-up.