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Resilience and Adaptation

Prepare communities for the changing climate through policies that reduce vulnerability, strengthen infrastructure, manage flooding, extreme weather, and other climate risks, and build long-term resilience.

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Resource Congress

Proposed Agriculture Resilience Act (2020)

The proposed Agriculture Resilience Act of 2020 would set a target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture by the year 2040. It would pursue this target by: Increasing Resear...
Example States and State Governments

Vermont’s Proposed Climate Superfund Bill

This proposed 2024 bill imposes a one-time fee on major fossil fuel producers responsible for more than a billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution from 2000 through 2019. The funds collected th...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Adaptation

Ontl et al.’s 2020 report provides a Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon management concepts into actionable tactics that help managers reduce risk from expected climate impac...
Example States and State Governments

Massachusetts’ Proposed Climate Superfund Bill

Massachusetts joined the group of states in 2024 proposing variations on a climate superfund bill, targeting $75 billion in damages for climate change from fossil fuel companies, to be spent on climat...
Resource Local Governments

Report, City Policy Framework for Dramatically Reducing Embodied Carbon

This 2020 policy framework from the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance is intended for cities and other government bodies to develop a strategy, action plan and policies they can adopt to dramatically red...
Example Executive Branch

National Institute of Food and Agriculture research funding

Little NIFA funding currently goes to climate. E.g., of $375 million sought in President Obama’s 2016 Budget, only $15 million was related to climate, and none of that was to go towards mitigation eff...
Resource Congress

Proposed Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act (2020)

Note: Elements of this proposed legislation overlap substantially with the LPDD Model Law, published Sept. 2020, Model Amendments to the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, which would require all sh...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Climate Resilient Farming Program

New York’s Climate Resilient Farming Program provides grant funds for projects that mitigate the impact of agriculture on climate change for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and carbon sequestration...
Example States and State Governments

California EO B-52-18

California EO B-52-18 was issued to support the state’s resilience to wildfire and other climate impacts, address extensive tree mortality, increase forests’ capacity for carbon capture, and improve f...
Resource Executive Branch

SEC Rules on Climate Disclosure (Updated March 2024)

In March, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose financial risks to their investors caused by climate change and efforts to addr...
Model Law States and State Governments

LPDD Model Law: State Provision to Promote Local Employment in Decarbonization Policies

This Model Provision provides a regulatory framework to use decarbonization policy to promote local employment without resorting to protectionist measures that run afoul of international trade rules. ...
Example States and State Governments

Maryland’s Proposed Climate Superfund Bill

Maryland’s proposed RENEW Act of 2024 — Responding to Emergency Needs from Extreme Weather — seeks to levy penalties on the 40 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in Maryland over the past two decade...
Resource Congress

Report, Agriculture and Climate Change: Policy Imperatives and Opportunities to Help Producers Meet the Challenge

This 2019 position paper from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition reviews the science related to climate change mitigation and adaptation on farms in the U.S., in order to provide a sound r...
Example Local Governments

Climate Action Fund Ballot Measures

In November 2020, Denver as well as three California cities—Berkeley, Long Beach, and Albany — all considered ballot measures to create climate action funds. These funds would allocate the funding tow...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Climate Superfund Act

New York’s 2024 Climate Change Superfund Act establishes a climate change adaptation cost recovery program to require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming gr...
Model Law Local Governments

LPDD Model Law: Green Bank State and Local Legislation

Green banks are independent nonprofit, public, or quasi-public financial institutions that leverage public or philanthropic dollars – and government backing – to attract private capital to zero and lo...