Join ARCCA and Geos Institute for an upcoming Learning Session webinar!
Climate Resilience Support for California’s Small- to Mid-sized Communities
Small communities across California face both the impacts of the climate change crisis as well as technical and financial capacity constraints that often leave them without the resources to hire consultants or the staff capacity to lead essential planning and implementation processes. Given current state mandates for adaptation planning, capacity constraints can leave local leaders feeling frustrated and helpless, especially as climate impacts continue to be felt across the state. But these communities do not have to go it alone.
State and nonprofit entities already provide important climate science and resilience resources for local communities. Climate Ready Communities can leverage those resources to help individual communities and county or regional planning entities develop adaptation plans that address their highest priority vulnerabilities using strategies that leverage local resources – all while helping them meet state planning mandates.
This webinar will demonstrate the tools available to collaboratives and their member communities through the Climate Ready Communities program. This program offers a comprehensive, do-it-yourself guide free of charge as well as a suite of complementary services that are affordably priced and available to communities that want to move through the program faster or find that they need specific assistance at points along the way. As a non-profit with over 10 years of experience in the climate adaptation field, our goal is to help local leaders strengthen adaptation skills and capacity so that they can create solutions that make sense for their communities – now and in the future.