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included $200 million for Climate Ready Infrastructure through the
Transportation Leadership Awards program of DOT.
Enhancing resilience in rebuilding following Hurricane Sandy through
federal relief programs. Programs that provide financial assistance
include the Federal Transit Administration ($1.3 billion to locally
prioritized projects to make transit systems more resilient to future
disasters); DOI ($100 million in competitive grants to promote
resilient natural systems and $250 million in support projects for
coastal restoration and resilience); and the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers ($20 million to study reducing the vulnerability of Sandy-
affected coastal communities to future large-scale flood and storm
events);.
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Identifying and taking actions in specific sectors, including energy
production, healthcare, insurance, land and water resource
conservation and management;agriculture, forestry, and others.
Among these efforts would be launch of a new National Drought
Resilience Partnership, and expansion of forest- and rangeland-
restoration to reduce those areas' vulnerability to catastrophic fire.
Focusing on ―usable knowledge‖ in continuing global change research
and completing the third National Climate Assessment (NCA). The
expected release date for the NCA is now Spring of 2014.
Launching a Climate Data Initiative consistent with the President's
May 9, 2013, Executive Order,
Making Open and Machine Readable
the New Default for Government Information
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It is intended to make
government data more freely available.
Providing a Toolkit for Climate Resilience that centralizes access to
various federal agencies' related tools, services, and best practices.
International Leadership
When the United States ratified the 1992 United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it agreed to the objective of
...stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a
level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the
climate system. Such a level should be achieved with a time-frame
sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to
