The NOAA Climate Program Office Communication, Education, and Engagement (CEE) Division’s Climate Resilience Toolkit group recently worked with members of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to facilitate updates to federal agency Climate Adaptation Plans. The updated Climate Adaptation Plans expand agency efforts to ensure their facilities, employees, resources, and operations are increasingly resilient to climate change impacts.
Working through a contract with Esri, the CEE team paired climate projection data available through the Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) portal with the locations of buildings and personnel in the federal government’s centralized inventory of real property. Agencies queried prepared applications to characterize exposure of their buildings and personnel to five climate-related hazards at two emissions levels (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) during two future periods (30-year periods centered on 2050 and 2080). The custom applications facilitated consistent characterization of exposure for agencies’ buildings and personnel to extreme heat and precipitation, sea level rise, flooding, and wildfire.
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For more information, contact LuAnn Dahlman.
