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Miami-Dade County Selected as U.S. Representative at 2010 Resilient Cities Conference
by Missy Stults, Adaptation Manager
How will sea-level rise and other climate impacts affect Miami Beach and Port of Miami in the coming decades? Planners must grapple with these questions now. Photo credit: joiseyshowaa via Flickr Creative Commons
Miami-Dade County, FL, was recently selected as the only U.S. city to be highlighted during a "reality check" session at the upcoming 2010 Resilient Cities Conference. The conference, slated to take place from May 29-31 in Bonn, Germany is being co-hosted by ICLEI, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and the City of Bonn, Germany. The Conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners, local governments, and other stakeholders to begin exploring opportunities for advancing the development of effective approaches and methodologies to accelerate local planning around preparing for climate change.
Miami-Dade County will be highlighted at the Conference in a session entitled "Reality Check," an hour-and-a-half-long session looking at how the County is vulnerable to changes in climate, what they are currently doing to prepare, and lessons other communities can learn from their experiences. In addition, attendees at the reality check session will have an opportunity to provide expert advice to Miami-Dade County about strategies they may want to explore to further increase their preparedness to climate change.
Only five cities/counties from around the world were selected for these sessions, including London, Durban, Dhaka, Quito, and Miami-Dade County. These communities were selected because of their innovative efforts to prepare for climate change and their leadership on this important effort.
In the U.S., Miami-Dade County has frequently been recognized as one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change as well as one of the national leaders in climate adaptation work. Their leadership is exemplified in the County’s seamless integration of climate adaptation into their climate and sustainability principles -- espoused in GreenPrint (the County’s Sustainability Assessment Report) and practiced by the County’s Office of Sustainability.
For those unable to attend the 2010 Resilient Cities Conference,
ICLEI will be releasing a case study detailing Miami-Dade County’s
adaptation efforts in early June. Continue checking the ICLEI USA
website for more information.
Learn more about the 2010 Resilient Cities Conference.
