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Think Beyond Homes and Roads to Better Prepare for Climate Change

With natural disasters, as with wars, we tend to fight the last one. While preparing for another Katrina or Sandy is important, we also need to be ready for future climate change impacts, such as heat waves and droughts. This means developing climate change scenarios and using a range of planning, design, and economic investment tools to increase the resilience of our homes, businesses and infrastructure.September 28, 2015

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Huffington Post Op-Ed: Lessons learned from rebuilding New Orleanns

Georgetown Climate Center Executive Director Vicki Arroyo wrote an op-ed published in The Huffington Post about New Orleans' revival after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city 10 years ago. New Orleans' recovery efforts, Arroyo explains, offer lessons for all communities that use federal disaster recovery dollars to rebuild, adapt, and thrive in the aftermath of climate-related disasters--and ideally, to prepare in advance of such events and avoid the most dire consequences.August 27, 2015

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Case Studies in Building Community Resilience

Explore how sub-national jurisdictions (municipalities, states, and special administrative regions) in the United States and China are taking action to build resilience to natural hazards, extreme weather, and climate change with a series of new case studies produced by the Georgetown Climate Center and Georgetown faculty. August 19, 2015

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Clean Power Plan: Summary of the Final Rule

In a recent webinar for state officials, the Georgetown Climate Center provided a summary of EPA’s final Clean Power Plan rule to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants. The video presentation below...August 19, 2015

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Statements on the Clean Power Plan

Below are links to state statements about the Clean Power Plan.  Links will be posted as they become available.   California Gov. Jerry Brown California Secretary for Environmental...August 3, 2015

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