Improve local energy resilience by minimizing fuel poverty, installing distributed renewable energy systems, and developing microgrids that can improve energy system resiliency.
Reduce the urban heat impacts of public buildings, sites, and infrastructure and provide resiliency co-benefits.
Protect public buildings and natural/constructed infrastructure to reduce physical damage and sustain their function during extreme weather events.
Encourage private sector action and incentivize investment in preventive approaches that reduce risk and minimize impacts of extreme weather and the changing climate for human health and the built environment.
Increase social connectedness through engagement, capacity building, public investment, and opportunities for economically vulnerable residents to improve their economic prosperity and resilience to climate change.
Integrate climate resilience into city or tribal planning, policy, operations, and budgeting processes.
Achieve minimum levels of city green space and maximize the percent within a ten-minute walk of community members.
Reduce residential burning of wood and yard waste and eliminate ‘backyard’ trash burning.
Prepare to maintain public health and safety during extreme weather and climate-change-related events, while also taking a preventive approach to reduce risk for community members.
Install, assist with and promote publicly available EV charging stations or public fueling stations for alternative fuel vehicles.
