The Resilience Roundup highlights announcements, events, and funding opportunities along with links to the previous month's local, state, and national resilience news.
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Resilient Connecticut Updates
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July 23, 2019 -
Resilient Connecticut
Webinar
New Planning and Visualization Tools for Sea Level Rise
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11:00am - 12:00pm
On this webinar, new tools released by CIRCA and UConn’s Center for Energy and Environmental Law (CEEL) will be highlighted, including three “resilience scenarios” that can be used by municipal and state agency staff as communication and planning tools. These scenarios are drawings that depict sea level rise and flooding problems common in many Connecticut towns. Perspectives from recent meetings with municipal staff will be highlighted for additional context.
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Funding Opportunity - Hazard Mitigation Program Project
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As a result of two recent Major Disaster Declarations, DR 4385 and DR 4410, the State of Connecticut Division of Emergency Services & Public Protection's Hazard Mitigation Program has an application period open until
July 10, 2019
. The FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Guidance can be found through the link below - Page 33 of the guidance provides a chart of eligible activities by HMA program. If you have questions, please contact DEMHS Hazard Mitigation staff at
[email protected]
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Funding Opportunity - NextGen 2019 Grant
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The NextGen Committee is currently seeking proposals for new or existing programs that will help to reduce global warming, whether through direct carbon avoidance, climate communication, climate education, industry engagement, or otherwise. Proposals are due on
July 12, 2019.
Please contact
[email protected]
with questions.
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Sea Grant's Wrack Lines: Spring-Summer 2019 Issue
Focus on Resilience
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This issue of Sea Grant's Wrack Lines, “Making Connections,” focuses on how climate change is amplifying the many ways that people and nature are intertwined. The issue leads with three articles about how shoreline residents are being impacted by some of the physical impacts of climate change: more frequent road flooding, increasing wind vulnerability as homes are elevated, and the lingering effects of Superstorm Sandy. Submit questions and comments about the articles in this new issue to:
[email protected]
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ArcGIS Tool Release -
US Coastal Property at Risk from Rising Seas
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The Union of Concerned Scientists have released an ArcGIS tool that identifies the number of US homes at risk from chronic flooding over the coming decades due to sea level rise. It also shows the current property value, estimated population, and portion of the property tax base at risk. Data can be organized by community, state, zip code, or Congressional district all over the US. For the complete methodology, assumptions, and caveats associated with these results, please see the
technical backgrounder for this analysis
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July 16, 2019 - Climate Disasters And The Green New Deal
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Starr Foundation Hall
(63 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003)
Join the
Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysi
s
(SCEPA) for a presentation, workshop, and panel on climate disasters and the Green New Deal. The event is hosted by SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project and supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
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August 27 - 29, 2019 - USET Climate Resilience Summit
Turning Stone Resort Casino
(5218 Patrick Road, Verona, NY)
Tribal experts and partners will come together to share knowledge and practices in building climate change resilience within Southern and Eastern Tribal Nations. Presenters will include Tribal Nations with climate adaptation plans, local practitioners in resilience building, and partners from the Northeast and Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
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October 8-9, 2019 - Living Shorelines Tech Transfer Workshop
Beaufort Hotel
(2440 Lennoxville Road Beaufort, NC)
Hosted by Restore America's Estuaries and the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the
2019 Living Shorelines Tech Transfer Workshop
is the premier nationwide gathering of the living shorelines community of practice. The adoption of living shorelines, regulation, engaging your community, new techniques, and more will be discussed during the two-day period.
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November 4-8, 2019 - Gulf of Maine 2050 International Symposium
Call for Abstracts
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The Westin Portland Harborview
(157 High Street, Portland, ME)
Join leaders from across New England and the Maritime Provinces for this event that brings together environmental, economic, social and institutional perspectives on climate resilience. Gulf of Maine 2050 is now accepting abstracts that highlight current research, examples of climate impacts on communities, businesses and industries, and case studies highlighting efforts to promote resilience.
The deadline for abstract submission is August 5.
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June 2019 -
Madison Forms a Coastal Resiliency Commission
, Madison, CT
The town of Madison has recently formed a Coastal Resiliency Commission which will be charged with evaluating the impacts of climate change and sea level rise and developing a Resiliency Plan to formulate strategies and address potential impacts to the town.
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June 2019 - An Act Authorizing Municipal Climate Change and Coastal Resiliency Reserve Funds
This month in Connecticut, State Bill 1062 has been passed, allowing a municipality to establish a climate change and coastal resiliency reserve fund. This bill comes in effect on July 1st, 2019.
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June 17, 2019 -
Developer Outlines Plan for Smiler’s Wharf Project
, The Day
On June 17th, over 300 people attended a public hearing on the Smiler’s Wharf project proposed for Mystic's Seaport Marine site. Noank Shipyard is seeking to rezone a 7.5-acre portion of an 11-acre site from marine commercial to a Neighborhood Development District and obtain approval for the site's master plan, including a new bulkhead to protect against storm surge.
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June 27, 2019 -
New York City Declares a Climate Emergency
, CNN
New York City officials
declared a climate emergency
in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming. The bill that passed on June 26th referenced several reports on the state of global warming and its impact.
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June 6, 2019 -
Merkley, Wyden Introduce Legislation to Help Communities Protect Coastal Shorelines
, Wyden Senate
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have collaborated to introduce the Living Shorelines Act, legislation that would create a new grant program for nature-based shoreline protection projects known as living shorelines.
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June 7, 2019 -
Climate Change Alters What's Possible in Restoring Florida's Everglades
, Greenwich Time
For the past 20 years, scientists and engineers have been working on a multi-billion-dollar restoration effort designed to reclaim the Everglades’ past glory. Although some progress has been made toward restoration’s original goals, growing evidence of unanticipated effects from climate change and sea level rise is forcing experts to reassess what is possible.
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June 11, 2019 -
More Ghost Forests Are Rising Up
, MNN
Ghost forests are a haunting indicator of climate change and a
new study published in Nature Climate Change
finds they're more widespread along the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. than ever before.
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une 13, 2019 -
Summit Focuses on Climate Risks
, Coastal Review Online
Tuesday, June 11th kicked off the two-day
North Carolina Coastal Resilience Summit
. During the event, national, state and local officials discussed the realities of the changing climate and how to effectively build a resilient North Carolina in the face of climate change.
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June 19, 2019 -
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?
, The New York Times
After three years of
brutal flooding
and hurricanes in the United States, there is growing consensus among policymakers and scientists that coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades, but now and in the very near future.
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June 19, 2019 -
$12M to Prepare MA Communities for Climate Change
, Morning AG Clips
The Baker-Polito Administration has awarded $12 million in grants to municipalities across the Commonwealth to plan for and implement climate change resilience projects through the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program.
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The Resilience Roundup highlights
CIRCA's
presence in the news, provides links to recent local/state/national news articles related to resilience and adaptation, and announces upcoming events and seminars.
The Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation's (CIRCA) mission is to increase the resilience and sustainability of vulnerable communities along Connecticut's coast and inland waterways to the growing impacts of climate change and extreme weather on the natural, built, and human environment. The institute is located at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus and includes faculty from across the university. CIRCA is a partnership between UConn and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP).
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