During a webinar being hosted by the FL BRACE (Building Resilience Against Climate Effects) project, Florida's State Climatologist, David Zierden, will review global trends in increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and how they are impacting the global climate system before narrowing the focus on how these trends are manifested in the state of Florida. Special attention will be placed on how climate and weather threats, especially as related to human health, may or may not be changing. The primary threats that will be examined are hurricanes, extreme rainfall and drought, sea level rise, and extreme temperatures. Not to be ignored is the background of Florida's historical climate and natural variability, much of which can be related to the El Niño/La Niña cycle. To join the webinar from your computer, tablet or smartphone on Wednesday, August 12 at 11AM (ET), go to https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/522948533 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a new publication, Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions. The key goal of this guide is to help communities identify and engage the staff and resources that can play a role in building resilience with nature-based solutions. This guide defines nature-based solutions as sustainable planning, design, environmental management, and engineering practices that weave natural features or processes into the built environment to build more resilient communities. While this guide uses the term nature-based solutions, other organizations use related terms, such as green infrastructure, natural infrastructure, or Engineering with Nature®, a program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The focus of this guide is local communities, but many of the ideas and advice may also apply to state, territorial, and tribal governments.

The Florida Counties Low-Income Residential Energy Efficient Grant Program is a new program developed by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Office of Energy (FDACS OOE) to create more energy efficient dwellings to improve the lives of low-income families and reduce the burden of residential high energy cost expenditures. Florida Counties are the only eligible applicants for this program. Eligibility of applicants, projects and activities, and locations is determined based on the definitions and other criteria addressed in the Notice of Federal Financial Assistance Funding Opportunity (NOTICE), its attachments, and associated documents. Applications must be submitted to the FDACS Purchasing Office by 5:00 p.m. EST on August 31, 2020

The Committee on Long Term Environmental Trends in the Gulf of Mexico, hosted by the NASEM Gulf Research Program, will be assessing various aspects of current U.S. Gulf of Mexico restoration efforts, including the cumulative effects of multiple restoration projects and the effects of acute events (e.g., hurricanes) and long-term physical changes (e.g., sea level rise). The committee will also evaluate existing resources for informing restoration decision making and recommend adaptive management strategies.In this open session, representatives from the National Academies' Gulf Research Program, Gulf restoration funders, and Gulf state natural resource agencies will discuss their expectations for the study. A Q&A period with panelists and committee members will follow. Register here. 

The CDC has published a new document Preparing for the Regional Health Impacts of Climate Change in the United States. The publication describes the various health impacts climate change will have on different regions of the United States, actions taken by the CDC Climate and Health Program's health department partners to prepare for and respond to climate change in their communities, and relevant tools and resources.