Local weather change is already impacting each neighborhood in the US. From excessive warmth to devastating floods, supercharged hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires, these excessive climate occasions pose direct threats to lives and livelihoods and have important financial impacts: in 2024 in the US, there have been 27 disasters costing $1 billion or extra, for a complete of $182.7 billion in damages.
In the present day, the US launched a brand new Nationwide Adaptation and Resilience Planning Technique, which presents a blueprint and a sequence of essential steps wanted to avoid wasting lives and livelihoods, shield enterprise investments and our financial system, safeguard nationwide safety, and assist safe a more healthy future for our nation, whereas serving to allow state, Tribal, territorial, and native adaptation actions. Even because the world continues to work to restrict future greenhouse gasoline emissions, and temperature rise, the U.S. Nationwide Adaptation and Resilience Planning Technique will assist our nation adapt to and put together for the quick, medium-, and long-term results of local weather change.
The USA has additionally supported companions world wide in constructing resilience to local weather change. This help is supplied by means of bilateral help and contributions to multilateral funds to help creating nations to formulate and implement nationwide adaptation plans. These actions are essential to saving lives, defending worldwide provide chains, and guaranteeing the soundness of the worldwide financial system.
The U.S. Nationwide Adaptation and Resilience Planning Technique is obtainable right here.
Collectively, we should proceed to work to safe a cleaner, safer, extra resilient planet for present and future generations.
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