Solutions
Regional Climate Action
Accelerating solutions to climate challenges through place-based, collaborative work.
Throughout the U.S., cities, towns, and rural regions increasingly recognize that meeting their economic, environmental and social goals requires an integrated vision and coordinated efforts. While many places have made progress, communities still struggle to effectively integrate their goals, actions, and investments in land-use, transportation, housing, energy, environment, economic development, and equity.
The regional approach to climate action allows individual communities to shape and share a better future. Our placed-based work helps efforts at the regional, metro, and city levels move beyond fragmented planning and development programs to achieve the ultimate goal: thriving, resilient regions of robust, connected, sustainable communities that create opportunities for all.
Innovations in Building Resilient Communities II
For communities exploring approaches to their resilience challenges.
Innovations in Building Resilient Communities
For communities exploring approaches to their resilience challenges.
Think Resiliently, Act Regionally
Regional governance allows diverse communities to pool ideas and resources, make faster progress towards adaptation & resilience goals, and attract more state and federal help. This SCLA explored the best practices, challenges and opportunities associated with collaboration on climate action at the regional scale.
Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change – A State of the Art
Bound together by a shared focus on place, Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCCs), are harnessing the power of networks to build resilience to climate impacts and, in some cases, to reduce the emissions driving those impacts.
Preparing for Wildfire in Puget Sound
The possibility that a large wildfire could occur in the forests on the highly urbanized west side of Washington State’s Cascade Mountains is currently a remote, but real, possibility that grows every year as the region’s population increases, and our climate changes.
3 Lessons for Building Community Resilience to Severe Storms
In the wake of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, ISC's Miami-based Sr. Program Officer Lauren Ordway shares three lessons from our work building regional resilience in Southeast Florida, which could be used to strengthen communities in the face of storms.
It felt like stealing. There was no reasonable way to get that much high-quality information in such a short period of time.
–Charles Whatley, Director of Commerce and EntrepreneurshipAtlanta Development Authority
