Helping Communities Adapt to Climate Change

Even if society stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the impacts of past and current emissions would be felt for decades. That’s why the Georgetown Climate Center is working with state and local policymakers to plan for flooding in coastal communities, to address water shortages in already dry regions of the country, and to offset the public health dangers related to climate change.

The Georgetown Climate Center provides states and local governments with best-practice models, legal analysis [1], policy work [1], and legislative tracking [2], and seeks to maximize the federal, state, regional, and local collaborations that are needed to implement new approaches to adaptation.

Learn more [3] about the Center’s work on adaptation.