Using Data to Embed Climate Resilience in All Investments

This session takes a deep dive into how climate change affects all communities and how all of us – regardless of focus area – can incorporate a climate lens into our work. Using county-level data that includes past climate disaster declarations and costs of recent climate events, participants will develop an understanding of the specific climate threats in the geographical areas they work in, as well as the underlying physical and social vulnerabilities that determine how communities fare during a climate event. We conclude with an example of how this data led to an unlikely multi-sector partnership that achieved a $4.2 billion Bond Act for ecological enhancements and climate resilience, and lessons for how more of these partnerships might be built in the future. 

Session Designer: Johanna Lawton, Assistant Program Manager, Rebuild by Design