New York City Takes on Climate Change

Last week, New York City launched the Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the New York City Panel on Climate Change to develop strategies to protect the City's infrastructure from the effects of climate change. The task force is charged with creating an inventory of existing infrastructure that may be at-risk from the effects of climate change, developing coordinated adaptation plans to secure such assets based on climate change projections, drafting design guidelines for new infrastructure that take into account anticipated climate change impacts, and identifying adaptation strategies for further study. The task force will be assisted by a technical advisory committee, the New York City Panel on Climate Change: The Panel is tasked to develop a unified set of climate change projections for New York City, create a set of tools to help task force members identify at-risk infrastructure and develop adaptation strategies, write draft protection levels to guide the design of new infrastructure,  and issue a technical report on the localized effects of climate change on New York City.

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