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Climate Resilience refers to the adaptive capacity of an ecological system or human community to absorb impacts, recover from disruptive events, adapt to external stresses, and evolve to temper future climate change impacts.
From local action to global treaties, climate resilience is a growing priority fueled by local and national leaders, corporations, and private citizens looking to help vulnerable communities and ecosystems mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
Global Climate Risk
Global Climate Risk
The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 assesses the impacts of weather-related events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.), and raises alarm to existing vulnerabilities in regions where extreme events will become more frequent or severe with future changing climate.
Social Vulnerability
Social Vulnerability
The EPA's social vulnerability report indicates that climate change will not be evenly or equitably distributed socioeconomically. Four socially vulnerable populations—defined by income, educational attainment, race/ethnicity, and age—will suffer the greatest impacts. Understanding these diverse risks will be critical to planning equitable strategies.
Climate Change Action Plan, 2021-2025
Climate Change Action Plan, 2021-2025
The World Bank's Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025 advances a climate change context in a Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development (GRID) approach, including pursuance of poverty eradication and shared prosperity through a sustainability perspective.
Public Information on Climate
Public Information on Climate
Global citizens make daily decisions that may influence their resilience and vulnerability to effects of climate change: extreme heat, drought, wildfire, flooding, and coastal resilience. FEMA resources provide objective, fact-based climate information services to enable individuals, governments, businesses, and organizations to make decisions based on sound science.
Climate change poses risks to life on our planet, but the greatest burdens will be borne by unprotected ecosystems and vulnerable communities least prepared to respond. Easy answers often do not offer the most sustainable solutions.
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