The interview is the second in OAR’s 2023 Women’s History Month Campaign, highlighting accomplished women at NOAA working on climate resilience and building a climate-ready nation.
The latest in a series of innovative peer-to-peer knowledge exchanges that Pacific RISA, a NOAA CAP team, has facilitated that further climate adaptation capacity-building and start to bridge the planning-to-implementation gap among county planners in Hawaiʻi.
Researchers at WPI’s Global School have been awarded funding to co-create CCAN to foster knowledge sharing for more sustainable and equitable strategies for climate-action and community empowerment throughout Puerto Rico and the USVI.
On December 7, Ned Gardiner of the CEE Division will present on climate adaptation and The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit and the Steps to Resilience for FEMA Region 1, helping to bring climate information to communities in need of hazard mitigation assistance, planning support, and to forward deploy resources where they are most needed.
Wanda Crespo-Acevedo, a CAP/RISA Climate Adaptation Specialist, is interviewed by podcast UrbanaPlanifica on climate change and its impact on Puerto Rico.
Americans’ health, security and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. Every day, we see communities grappling with environmental challenges due to unusual or extreme events related to climate and weather.