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Climate change is an urgent issue we face together. On this page, learn how we are addressing climate change and find resources for emergency managers.



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Understand FEMA’s role in and resources for addressing climate change, along with tools to help you know your climate risk.



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      Climate Essentials for Emergency Managers
Climate Essentials for Emergency Managers offers foundational learning opportunities for the emergency management community and beyond. By sharing communication techniques, climate information, data resources, and guidance for connecting with experts, this resource helps advance the integration of climate change considerations into actionable efforts before, during, and after disasters.



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    FEMA Efforts Advancing Community-Driven Relocation
On Nov. 30, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the launch of a new Voluntary Community-Driven Relocation program, led by the Department of the Interior, to assist tribal communities severely impacted by climate-related environmental threats. In August 2022, the interagency Community-Driven Relocation Subcommittee was announced and is co-led by FEMA and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). This subcommittee convenes federal agencies to explore key considerations, issues and strategies for community partnerships to support voluntary movement away from high-risk regions.



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      FEMA Advances Global Climate Resilience Through a Series of Agency FirstsIn 2023, FEMA led crucial engagements to strengthen readiness and adaptation within the global crisis management community. FEMA’s landmark year of international cooperation was capped by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell being the first FEMA Administrator to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28).illustration of page of paperDecember 28, 2023
    FEMA Offers Workshop to Counteract the Effects of Climate ChangeLandslides and coastal erosion were two of the most frequent impacts suffered by Puerto Rico's municipalities because of Hurricane María in 2017. These and other threats may worsen and increase as the effects of climate change continue to intensify across the Island. 

To address this challenge, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), through its Community Assistance - Recovery Support Function (CA-RSF) unit, organized a workshop to advise municipal staff on new tools and strategies that can increase the resilience of their recovery projects by considering climate change variables in their jurisdictions. Emergency planners and managers, among other local officials from the municipalities of Bayamón, Cataño, Ciales, Dorado, Florida, Guaynabo, Manatí, Morovis, Orocovis, San Juan, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Vega Alta and Vega Baja participated in the event.illustration of page of paperDecember 21, 2023
    Biden-Harris Administration Announces $150 Million to Help Underserved Communities Receive Low-Interest Loans for Resilience ProjectsAs FEMA launches 2024 as its “Year of Resilience”, the agency is announcing the second funding opportunity for the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant program to make communities safer from natural hazards.illustration of page of paperDecember 19, 2023
    FEMA Obligates More than $8 Million to East Harlem Flood ProjectNEW YORK—An East Harlem public housing development is the recipient of a FEMA grant to make it more resilient to flooding threats.
Clinton Houses will receive more than $8.3 million for a stormwater resiliency project funded through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program’s FY21 funding cycle. The project aims to reduce the effects of extreme rainfall events in the low-income housing community.illustration of page of paperNovember 16, 2023
    President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Two Years Later: FEMA Makes Advancements for Climate ResiliencyIn the two years since President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, FEMA has taken significant steps to build a more resilient nation.illustration of page of paperNovember 15, 2023
    Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $2 Billion in Available Funding to Increase Climate Resilience NationwideToday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and White House Infrastructure Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the President Mitch Landrieu announced that as part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, FEMA is making $1.8 billion available for two grant programs designed to help communities increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change, including increasingly frequent and extreme weather events.illustration of page of paperOctober 12, 2023
    Biden-Harris Administration Joins NAACP for Intergenerational Climate Resilience Roundtable During Climate Week NYCTo kick off Climate Week NYC, White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi joined FEMA and the NAACP for an intergenerational roundtable on disaster preparedness, climate resilience and instilling equity in emergency management.illustration of page of paperSeptember 19, 2023
    Biden-Harris Administration Announces First Recipients Selected to Administer Innovative Climate Resilience Loan FundToday, FEMA is announcing that seven states and the District of Columbia will receive a combined $50 million in capitalization grants to help communities reduce vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters.illustration of page of paperSeptember 12, 2023
    FEMA Announces Nearly $3 Billion in Funding Selections to Drive Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather EventsBOTHELL, Wash. - Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu announced the project selections for nearly $3 billion in climate resilience funding as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The selections, through two competitive grant programs, will help communities across the nation enhance resilience to climate change and extreme weather events.illustration of page of paperAugust 28, 2023
    Biden-Harris Administrations Announces Nearly $3 Billion in Project Selections to Help Communities Build Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather EventsToday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu announced the project selections for nearly $3 billion in climate resilience funding as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The selections, through two competitive grant programs, will help communities across the nation enhance resilience to climate change and extreme weather events.illustration of page of paperAugust 28, 2023
  
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Emergency Management in a Changing Climate



The challenges posed by climate change, such as more intense storms, frequent heavy precipitation, heat waves, drought, extreme flooding and higher sea levels could significantly alter the types and magnitudes of hazards faced by communities and the emergency management professionals serving them. Emergency managers should adapt to the impacts of climate change.



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NFIP’s Community Rating System (CRS) GuidanceThreat and Hazard Identification and Risk AssessmentNational Risk Index for Natural HazardsIntegrating Sustainability into RecoveryIntegrating Mitigation into RecoveryClimate.govUS Global Change Research ProgramEPA Stormwater CalculatorUS Climate Resilience ToolkitNASA Climate ResourcesDOE Climate Change Science and InnovationHHS SustainabilityClimate Data at data.gov



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National Climate Assessment 2018National Mitigation Investment StrategyHazard Mitigation AssistanceBuilding SciencePrepTalksRisk Mapping, Assessment and PlanningTechnical Mapping Advisory CouncilFederal Flood Risk Management StandardCoastal Flood RisksPlanning for Future ConditionsPlanificación para condiciones futurasBuilding Community Resilience with Nature-based SolutionsEnvironmental and Historic PreservationClimate Change Research (EPA)Climate Change Adaptation Resource Center - ARC-X (EPA)



Strategy and Policy



Executive Order 13990: Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate CrisisExecutive Order 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad



Memo 2021-02839: Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence Based PolicymakingExecutive Order 14007: the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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