Free Climate Adaptation Resources

ICLEI Case Studies

Institutionalizing Climate Preparedness in Miami-Dade County, FL (2010, pdf)

Keene, NH, Leading on Climate Preparedness (2010, pdf)

Homer, AK's Climate Adaptation Progress Despite Uncertainties (2010, pdf)

Reports and Studies

Recommended Actions in Support of a National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (White House Council on Environmental Quality, 2010, pdf)

Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response (New York Academy of Sciences, 2010)

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2009)

More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming’s Wake Up Call (National Wildlife Federation, 2009, pdf)

Shaping Climate Resilient Development: A Framework for Decision Making (Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group, 2009, pdf)

Health Problems Heat Up: Climate Change and the Public's Health (Trust for America's Health, 2009, pdf)

Confronting Climate Change: An Early Analysis of Water and Wastewater Adaptation Costs (National Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, 2009, pdf)

The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast (Pacific Institute, 2009)

Americans' Knowledge of Climate Change (Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 2010, pdf)

Adaptation Plans

NOAA's list of mostly state-level adaptation plans

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Climate Resilient Communities Program Fact Sheet (ICLEI, 2010 pdf)

The Mitigation-Adaptation Connection: Milestones, Synergies and Contradictions (ICLEI, 2010, pdf)

Financing Climate Change Adaptation (ICLEI, 2010, pdf)

Preserving Assets in At-Risk Municipalities: Financial Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation (New England Environmental Finance Center, 2009, pdf)

Guidebooks, Toolkits, Websites

NOAA Climate Services Website (for up-to-date climate science)

NOAA National Climatic Data Center

NOAA Coastal Climate Adaptation Website

NOAA Coastal and Waterfront Smart Growth Website

EPA Climate Ready Estuaries Coastal Toolkit

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional and State Governments (Climate Impacts Group, King County, ICLEI, 2008, pdf)

Drought-Ready Communities: A Guide to Community Drought Preparedness

Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)

Climate Ready Water Utilities Toolbox

Tabletop Exercise Tool for Water Systems:  Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Climate Resiliency (TTX Tool)