In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Cameron Adams, a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, in the office of Senator Chris Coons (Democrat) of Delaware. Cam is the primary author of a new bi-partisan bill that would create a position of Chief Resilience Officer, who would be responsible for developing a National Adaptation Plan. Cam shares the history of the legislation; why Congress should work with the Executive Branch on adaptation issues; its prospects for passage; the details of the legislation and his own experiences as an adaptation professional.

Topics discussed:

• Why pass an adaptation bill?
• Do we need a national adaptation plan?
• Roles and responsibilities of a future Chief Resilience Officer
• Most climate policy is focused on mitigation
• Very few organizations providing expertise to Congress on the issue of adaptation. This needs to change.
• How a national adaptation plan would integrate the national climate assessment.
• What is policy durability? And why is it important for climate adaptation.
• Working with the Executive branch on adaptation policy.
• Cam’s educational background that prepared him to write adaptation legislation.

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Links in episode:
https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Coons%20Bill.pdf
https://www.coons.senate.gov/
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590686-bipartisan-lawmakers-announce-climate-adaptation-bill
https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-coons-murkowski-unveil-landmark-bipartisan-climate-resilience-legislation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-adams1/
https://seagrant.noaa.gov/Knauss-Fellowship-Program

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
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7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
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In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Laurie Schoeman, the National Director for Climate Risk Reduction and Resilience at Enterprise Community Partners. We discuss:  affordable housing and climate change; standardizing resilience in building codes; what’s problematic about the subject of managed retreat; Resilience21; and a new, important FEMA housing policy change.

Topics discussed:

• Affordable housing and climate change.
• Resilience should be as well understood by the public as Energy star in regard to energy efficiency.
• Standardizing resilience in building codes.
• What’s problematic about the subject of managed retreat.
• Resilience21 – What is it and what does it do?
• How to distribute climate funding in an equitable way.
• Learn about FEMA’s recent policy decision regarding long term housing.

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Links in episode:
https://www.climateresiliencysolutions.com/
https://keepsafeguide.enterprisecommunity.org/
https://www.resilience21.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/us/hurricane-ida-fema-housing.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/welcome-2022-toast-fresh-start-laurie-schoeman/?trackingId=KHJQKTtmTr67gKuiCfhZ8g%3D%3D
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-building-forward-looking-backward-laurie-schoeman/
https://nysclimateimpacts.org/news/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/16/disaster-survivors-fema-housing-trailers-apartments/
https://businesscontinuity.enterprisecommunity.org/sites/default/files/strategies-for-multifamily-building-resilience.pdf
https://businesscontinuity.enterprisecommunity.org/sites/default/files/strategies-for-multifamily-building-resilience.pdf
https://keepsafeguide.enterprisecommunity.org/en/water-management-and-storage

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

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In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Alizé Carrère, a National Geographic Explorer, filmmaker, and PhD student researching and documenting human adaptations to environmental change. Alizé discuses her four part adaptation series she did with PBS. We also discuss her doctoral research on “climatopias”, the forward-looking plans that architects, designers and futurists are drawing up in response to imminent environmental change. Doug and Alizé discuss how the adaptation sector needs dreamers and big thinkers.

Topics discussed:

• PBS takes a crack at telling local adaptation stories
• Local adaptation examples in Kentucky, Vanuatu, India and Bangladesh
• What is a ‘climatopia’?
• Relationship between transformational adaptation and climatopias.
• The role of social cohesion in climatopias.
• The adaptation sector needs more dreamers and visionaries to help create inspiring narratives.

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https://twitter.com/alizecarrere

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Links in episode:
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https://az.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/pbs-adaptation/
http://www.broadlab.org/new-page-3

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Cal Inman, founder of ClimateCheck, an online real estate climate risk data tool, that identifies current risk exposure to climate impacts such as drought, floods and sea level rise. Cal shares why climate data is so important to the real estate sector in helping consumers make climate smart decisions on home buying. We also ground truth the ClimateCheck tool on two vastly different home locations to see what their future impacts will be.

Topics discussed:

• What is ClimateCheck and how does it work.
• How large real estate listers like Redfin and Zillow are integrating climate impacts into their database of homes.
• How the real estate sector is evolving to consider climate impacts.
• Home level case study of how ClimateCheck works.
• Why is climate data so important for the real estate sector?

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Links in episode:
https://climatecheck.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cal-inman-1b98a7194
https://www.redfin.com/news/climate-change-housing/

“In Loving Memory of Nina Hall” by The Resilience Fund
https://mailchi.mp/ec895ffcd2c2/ccre-grants-5699718?e=d68f2b740a
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-hall-62158412

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions
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In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts the CEO and President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Manish Bapna. Doug and Manish talk about how NRDC is addressing climate change, specially focusing on their approach to resilience and adaptation planning. Manish shares his vision on how domestic and international adaptation approaches can learn from each other and an update on their legislative approach to adaptation funding.

Topics covered:

• Integrating international and domestic adaptation planning.
• How COP26 approached resilience
• Legislative opportunities for resilience
• NRDC’s legal approach
• Why NRDC was an early adopter of resilience in their climate change approach.

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Links in episode:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/manish-bapna
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/joel-scata/fema-moves-reform-flood-insurance-program
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/22/2021-25336/request-for-information-on-the-national-flood-insurance-programs-floodplain-management-standards-for

Interviews with other NRDC Resilience Staff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9talifU80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqi_ffS0DLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsZuO9dCRvY

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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The hosts of a new climate adaptation podcast, Resilience: The Global Adaptation Podcast, join the show to talk about international adaptation. Elizabeth Bernhardt and Marcus Neild, from the United Nations’ Environment Program, discuss the origins of the podcast and why there’s a need to tell more international adaptation stories. Also joining is Laura Schifter of the Aspen Institute who gives an update on the climate curricula initiative, K12 Climate Action. They’ve just released a new report and we’ll hear the status of climate curricula in the country. A great episode, have a listen!

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https://www.unep.org/gan/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/resilience-the-global-adaptation-podcast/id1588280014
https://k12climateaction.org/
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/laura-schifter

America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve Newsletter!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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