Climate Adaptation & Preparedness 

All levels of government, communities, non-profits, and the private sector must prepare for more extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, and altered ecological systems resulting from rising global surface temperatures. Effective climate preparedness will require new forms of planning and governance. This includes enhanced approaches to information generation, scenario planning, decision-making, resource allocation, policy development and stakeholder involvement.

CLI’s Climate Preparedness Program conducts research and provides technical assistance to organizations engaged in climate preparedness and adaptation. We support and collaborate with other practitioners and researchers to identify the best practices, tools, and policies in places where climate preparedness projects are already underway. We also initiate and support the development of integrated multi-sectoral model climate change preparedness projects in strategic locations across the nation where such programs do not exist.

Our research program evaluates the strengths and limitations of different approaches to climate preparedness and adaptation planning and decision making occurring across the nation. We build on knowledge gained by current research to inform and improve federal, state and local climate preparedness and adaptation policies and planning approaches.
 
In addition, we develop and disseminate much-needed climate preparedness decision support tools and provide direct technical assistance to organizations in developing and evaluating climate change preparedness strategies and policies.