Let's prepare for our new climate

Georgetown Climate Center's Adaptation Clearinghouse seeks to assist state policymakers, resource managers, academics and others who are working to help communities adapt to climate change. The Clearinghouse contains more than 1,000 resources.

This toolkit explores 18 different land-use tools that can be used to preemptively respond to the threats posed by sea level rise to both public and private coastal development and infrastructure, and strives to assist governments in determining which tools to employ to meet their unique socioeconomic and political contexts.

This report is designed to help local governments reduce the effects of increased heat on their communities and citizens. It provides an analytic tool for policymakers to consider a combination of four built-environment changes (cool roofs, green roofs, cool pavements and urban forestry), providing clear criteria for selecting among these approaches.