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How New Battery Capacity Helped California Avoid Another Blackout

Climate change represents a significant challenge for California. Climate scientists have found that are becoming more frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting, as well as exhibiting higher nighttime temperatures and humidity—particularly in inland urban areas. Periods of sustained high temperatures and extreme weather readings will have the most direct impact on the peak demand forecast, leading to more frequent scarcity condition events when electricity supply and demand becomes severely imbalanced.

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards: The Basics

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Sand dunes with a clear blue sky in the background
Module Description
Learn an approach for identifying your community’s coastal hazard issues, ecosystem services that can reduce hazard impacts, and green infrastructure practices that can provide those services. Develop the beginnings of a community green infrastructure plan.
Source Organization URL
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Digital Coast
Type of Training
Online, Self-Guided
Difficulty Scale
Beginner
Module Time
1:00

GIS for Climate Resilience

Submitted by luann.dahlman on
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splashscreen
Module Description
Using a climate resilience planning process—the Steps to Resilience documented in the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit—this curriculum is designed to help you use geographic information to document climate hazards that could harm the people and places you care about, decide which situations you most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce your climate-related risks.
External Link
https://gis-for-climate-resilience-learngis.hub.arcgis.com/
Source Organization URL
Esri
Type of Training
Online, Self-Guided
Difficulty Scale
Intermediate
Module Time
15:00

A Rural Capacity Map

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the largest investment in climate resilience in U.S. history. The $1.2 trillion in funding will create transformative opportunities for local governments that own and maintain most of the nation’s infrastructure, but first state and federal agencies must ensure the resources get to the places that need it the most.

California State Coastal Conservancy: Gravel Beach and Berm for Shorebird Habitat Creation, Erosion Control and Flood Protection

Follow the link below to access this case study published by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation:

Case Study: California State Coastal Conservancy - Gravel Beach and Berm for Shorebird Habitat Creation, Erosion Control and Flood Protection

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

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The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report

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The Sea Level Rise Technical Report provides the most up-to-date sea level rise projections available for all U.S. states and territories; decision-makers will look to it for information.

This multi-agency effort, representing the first update since 2017, offers projections out to the year 2150 and information to help communities assess potential changes in average tide heights and height-specific threshold frequencies as they strive to adapt to sea level rise.

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