America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast

In episode 176 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Kelly Hereid, the Director Of Catastrophe Research and Development at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Kelly takes us through the tool of catastrophe modeling and explains why it could be useful for adaptation planners. We also learn how the insurance industry tries to make the uncertain nature of hurricanes and climate change more predictable: “Climate translators” play a critical role in this process.  They also discuss the wild, wild west nature of the climate data and modeling industry and how to avoid using bad information in your adaptation planning. Doug and Kelly also discuss the unique and controversial role Citizens Property Insurance in Florida plays in coastal planning.

Topics covered:

• What is a ‘climate translator’?
• How the insurance industry makes climate uncertainty more predictable.
• What is catastrophe modeling and why it should be used in adaptation planning.
• Making sense of climate predictions set decades in the future.
• Translating climate impacts into metrics to make on the ground policy decisions.
• Dissecting hurricanes and climate impacts into sub perils.
• The Wild, Wild West nature of the climate modeling and data industry.
• How does Citizens Property Insurance encourage Floridians to make bad housing decisions.

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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

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In episode 175 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts early career adaptation professionals. We learn their educational background; what inspired them to get into the adaptation space; what climate impacts and geographic regions they are most interested in making a difference; do they think there are enough adaptation professional advancement opportunities; what adaptation work they want to be doing in 20 years; and what unique skills do they bring to the resilience space. Fantastic conversation with the next generation of adaptation professionals!

Topics covered:

• Educational background of early career adaptation professionals.
• What inspired these professionals to go into adaptation.
• What climate impacts and regions are people interested in?
• What are adaptation education gaps?
• Are there professional development opportunities in adaptation?
• What adaptation resources are recommended.
• What do they want to be doing in 20 years.
• What are some unique adaptation skills they bring to the sector.

Guests in this Episode:

• Dolly Na-Yemeh – Climate Adaptation Specialist with South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
• Brian Watts - Principal Associate, The Pew Charitable Trust
• Megan Holcomb - Director of Services, Planet | Climate Action Systems
• Cameron Adams - Senior Policy Associate, Wildfire Resilience, The Nature Conservancy
• Caitlin Rottler – Climate Adaptation Specialist with South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center

This episode was generously sponsored by the Genesee Mountain Foundation.

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https://southcentralclimate.org/about-us/people/
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

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In a re-release, episode 111 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Linda Shi, an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.  Doug and Linda talk about coastal development and adaptation economics; what happened to the 100 Resilient Cities Initiatives; urban inequality; racially just adaptation; transformative adaptation and much more!  

Topics covered:

• Issues for equity, adaptation and climate change
• Urban planning and climate justice.
• Spatial inequality
• Coastal development and adaptation economics
• “Racially just Adaptation”
• Real estate vulnerability
• Climate Adaptation Plans Can Worsen Unequal Urban Vulnerability
• Transformative adaptation
• What happened to the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative
• What is an adaptation professional?
• The lack of university level adaptation programs

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Links in this episode:
https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2016/06/19/climate-adaptation-plans-can-worsen-unequal-urban-vulnerability/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/05/opinion/fiscal-challenges-climate-change/
https://aap.cornell.edu/people/linda-shi
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1078087419910827
https://urbanaffairsreview.com/2020/03/03/from-progressive-cities-to-resilient-cities-lessons-from-history-for-new-debates-in-equitable-adaptation-to-climate-change/

Heat of the Moment podcast
https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/news/podcast-heat-moment

Paper by Gabriel Henderson
Governing the Hazards of Climate:  The Development of the National Climate Program Act, 1977–1981
https://hsns.ucpress.edu/content/46/2/207

Lyceum Educational Podcasts
https://www.lyceum.fm/about

Heat of the Moment podcast
https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/news/podcast-heat-moment

Paper by Gabriel Henderson
Governing the Hazards of Climate:  The Development of the National Climate Program Act, 1977–1981
https://hsns.ucpress.edu/content/46/2/207

Lyceum Educational Podcasts

https://www.lyceum.fm/about

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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In episode 173, Dr. Carolyn Kousky of the Environmental Defense Funds joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Understanding Disaster Insurance, New Tools for a More Resilient Future. Carolyn and Doug discuss why insurance companies still are not taking climate change seriously enough. Carolyn shares some innovative insurance tools to help people gain access to flood insurance in at risk areas. We also learn some of the fundamentals of climate risk and how insurance can play an increasing role in adaptation planning.  

Topics covered:

• Why should people care about risk insurance?
• Why aren’t insurance companies taking climate change more seriously?
• Examples of innovative insurance tools to help with adaptation planning.
• What is risk transfer and why is it so important for climate adaptation?
• Disasters, their economic consequences, and the role of insurance.
• Innovation to Unlock the potential of disaster insurance
• Why aren’t insurance companies more interested in managed retreat?

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• ICR23 Call for Abstracts: Download here
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https://www.edf.org/people/carolyn-kousky

Previous America Adapts Episodes Referenced in this Episode

Ep. 121:  Inside Out: The Grief, Trauma and Anxiety of Climate Change (and what you can do) with Dr. Renee Lertzman

Ep. 83:  To Sue or Not to Sue: Legal Liability and Climate Adaptation with the Conservation Law Foundation

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

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In episode 172, Judge Alice Hill from the Council on Foreign Relations returns to the podcast! Alice discusses the recent floods in Pakistan and how the aftermath could be a national security threat. We also discuss Puerto Rico and Hurricane Irma and the challenges of getting on the ground resilience funding on the island. Alice and I discuss how bureaucracies can have difficulty supporting adaptation planning and funding and why a National Adaptation Plan would help with adaptation coordination. Alice also shares the lack of basic climate understanding among corporate leaders and how that inhibits making resilience a priority in the private sector. We also dig into the recommendations of the recently released GAO report, Climate Change: Enhancing Federal Resilience. Always great to catch up with Alice Hill!

Topics covered:

• The flooding in Pakistan and the National Security Implications of the aftermath.
• Hurricane Fiona and Puerto Rico.
• The challenges for FEMA to distribute funding.
• Bureaucratic hurdles to effective climate adaptation.
• Why a National Adaptation Plan is absolutely needed.
• The Government Accountability Office report on Climate Resilience
• The controversy at the World Bank.
• The systematic lack of climate change knowledge in corporate leadership.

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Innovations in Climate Resilience Conference
https://www.battelle.org/conferences/conference-on-innovations-in-climate-resilience
General email is [email protected]
Media inquiry contact is TR Massey [email protected]

• ICR23 Call for Abstracts: Download here
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Links in episode:
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106061
https://www.cfr.org/expert/alice-c-hill
GAO Report:  Climate Change: Enhancing Federal Resilience
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106061

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa

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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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In episode 171, Dr. Jesse Keenan of Tulane University returns to discuss the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and how adaptation and resilience are built into the legislation. We discuss the misleading adaptation coverage in the media and why the Act represents a significant investment in climate resilience. Jesse takes a deep dive and explains how adaptation is built into tax policies, clean energy credits, community investment and much more in the legislation. Joining the podcast in a bonus interview is Samantha Medlock, the Senior Counsel for the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis where she explains what’s next for adaptation legislation in the U.S. Congress.

Topics covered:

• Misleading coverage of adaptation in the Inflation Reduction Act.
• How the Act integrates with other adaptation legislation, e.g., the Infrastructure Bill of 2021.
• Gaps in Adaptation funding and legislation
• Is a National Adaptation Plan even more critical now?
• Bonus interview: House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis discusses potential next steps for adaptation legislation
• Topics Covered from the Act that relate to adaptation.
  • Tax Policies
  • Tax Credits:  Direct Pay v.  Conventional Transfer Market
  • Clean Energy Tax Credits
  • Clean Fuels Tax Credits
  • Clean Vehicle & Refueling Tax Credits
  • Carbon Management Tax Credits
  • Residential Energy Efficiency
  • Community Investment and Energy Justice
  • Investing in Faster Permitting
  • Clean Energy Financing

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https://www.battelle.org/conferences/conference-on-innovations-in-climate-resilience
General email is [email protected]
Media inquiry contact is TR Massey [email protected]

• ICR23 Call for Abstracts: Download here
• ICR22 On-Demand: Access all proceedings, presentations, videos, and photos here

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Links in episode:
The Inflation Reduction Act
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/15/by-the-numbers-the-inflation-reduction-act/
Jesse Keenan
https://www.keenanclimate.com/
House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
https://climatecrisis.house.gov/

Links Shared by Samantha Medlock of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Clean Energy For All
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cleanenergy/

Rewiring America
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/

Build.gov
https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/?utm_source=build.gov

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation
https://resilience.climate.gov/

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU

America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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In episode 170, Lisa Craig of The Craig Group joins the podcast to discuss how her company supports local governments, community groups, cultural organizations, and state, national and tribal partners in adapting to climate change.  We also discuss the challenges of adapting cultural resources in a changing climate. Doug and Lisa discuss the implications of suing a local government to adapt to climate change.  Lisa shares stories of working with communities and describes in detail how they get very different stakeholders to collaborate on adaptation planning. In a segment, ‘adapt or abandon’, Lisa gives her professional opinion on what historic resources should be preserved and which ones we might have to abandon. It’s a provocative conversation but ultimately one many of us will have to have. Lisa also shares her unique professional journey into the adaptation sector. We also get a sneak peak of some work America Adapts will be doing with Lisa’s team in Trinidad and Tobago in 2023.

Topics covered:

• Hazard mitigation and its role in historic preservation.
• Historic preservation planning drives local adaptation planning.
• The art of getting diverse stakeholders to collaborate on adaptation planning.
• Lisa’s history of adaptation planning throughout the United States.
• What is Keeping History Above Water?
• Can you sue someone or a government entity to adapt because a historic resource is at risk from climate change?
• We do a new segment, “adapt or abandon” and Lisa gives her professional advice on some historic sites and if we should save them or abandon them.
• Preview of our upcoming collaboration, Resilient Heritage: Trinidad & Tobago Conference
• How one pivots professionally into the adaptation sector.

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Previous America Adapts highlighted in this episode:

Talking Climate Adaptation with The Walton Family Foundation’s Environment Program with Dr. Moira McDonald
In episode 113 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Moira McDonald of The Walton Family Foundation. Moira shares the focus of the foundation, with an emphasis on Louisiana coastal planning, wetland restoration and the role of the Mississippi River in adaptation. We also discuss strategic planning at a foundation; integrating adaptation into conservation planning and the challenges of risk taking for a foundation. Moira also discusses the role of the foundation in local community planning and much more!

Fundamentals of National Security and Climate Change with Commander Andrea Cameron of the U.S. Naval War College. Ep. 126.
In episode 126 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Commander Andrea Cameron of the U.S. Naval War College. In this episode, we discuss how the US military is approaching climate change; teaching this topic to military officers; learn what military branch is ahead on climate planning; how other countries like China and Russia are aggressively ramping up their adaptation efforts; the process of prioritizing a national threat and what we might expect to see in a Biden Administration. This episode will ground you on the fundamentals of climate change and national security.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

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In episode 169, we’re doing a mid year adaptation review extravaganza! Doug is joined by Shaun Martin of World Wildlife Fund and Monika Serrano, of Turner Construction. The three discuss the top climate stories of the past year; their favorite America Adapts episodes; future recommendations for the podcast; how to stay connected to the adaptation universe; their favorite resilience and adaptation resources; where will adaptation be in ten years and much more! It’s a fun and informative discussion with two leading adaptation pros!  Also, Dr. Jeff Colgan of Brown University joins the pod for a quick discussion on a new resource at Brown’s Climate Solutions Lab that allows you to search climate course syllabi, or upload your own for others to access.

Topics covered:

• Top climate stories of 2022
• Favorite America Adapts podcast episodes of the past year (and why)
• Recommended adaptation resources.
• Topics for future America Adapts’ episodes.
• Should universities offer adaptation degrees?
• How to use social media more effectively.
• Where will the adaptation sector be in ten years?

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Monika Serrano, Turner Construction
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monika-serrano-aa6b421/
Shaun Martin, WWF
https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/shaun-martin

Climate Solutions Lab Syllabus Bank
https://watson.brown.edu/climatesolutionslab/syllabus-bank

Citizens Climate Radio Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citizens-climate-radio/id1339453942

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
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America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

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In episode 168 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts David Kuhn and Ben Jordan. David is the lead for corporate resilience at World Wildlife Fund and Ben is the Senior Director of Packaging and Climate at The Coca-Cola Company.  We discuss why engaging the corporate sector is so important to WWF and why the private sector will be so important for the emerging adaptation sector.  We also discuss sustainability and its longer history with corporate America and how adaptation can complement the work that’s already been done in sustainability.  You’ll also learn about an innovative project the two are working on together that will build climate resilience and protect water quality in Guatemala. This episode will ground you in the current state of affairs with climate adaptation and the business sector.  We cover a lot of ground in this podcast!

Experts in this episode:

• David Kuhn - Lead for Corporate Resilience at World Wildlife Fund
• Ben Jordan - Senior Director of Packaging and Climate at The Coca-Cola Company

Topics covered:

• Is corporate America engaging with the emerging adaptation sector?
• Why engaging the corporate is so important to WWF and why the private sector will be so important for the adaptation sector.
• We’ll discuss sustainability and its longer history with corporate America and how adaptation can complement the work that’s already been done in sustainability
• Hear about on the ground resilience work in Guatemala.
• Learn about WWF’s principles for social-ecological resilience.
• What are the current conditions with climate adaptation with business.

This episode was generously sponsored by World Wildlife Fund.

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Donate to America Adapts, we are now a tax deductible charitable organization!

Links in episode:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/rising-to-resilience
https://www.worldwildlife.org/business/the-coca-cola-company
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/working-together-to-build-climate-change-resilience-and-protect-vital-water-in-guatemala
https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/david-kuhn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-r-jordan-077b2/
World Wildlife Fund’s Principles for Social-Ecological Resilience

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU

America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions
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In episode 167, Doug Parsons hosts Francisco Sanchez Jr., Associate Administrator for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance. Francisco shares what is the office of disaster assistance. We also discuss how climate change is requiring them to evolve their mission. SBA is actually a major funder of disaster preparedness, an increasingly important part of any adaptation response for communities. We also learn about Francisco’s previous experiences doing similar disaster work in Houston, Texas. He has some riveting stories as the city was preparing for Hurricane Harvey to make landfall. It’s a great episode and you get to hear how a federal agency is stepping up on the issue of climate change.

Topics covered:

• What is the role of SBA’s Office of Disaster Assistance
• How is the Office evolving factoring in climate change.
• What are some federal policies that make it hard to provide disaster assistance.
• Learn why disaster preparedness is a key pillar of climate adaptation.
• Learn how remarkable a storm event Hurricane Harvey in Houston was.
• See how the city of Houston prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Harvey.
• “Recovery has to be tied to resilience.”
• “People are seeing forecasts that they could have never imagined before.”
• “Don’t fight the Scenario.”

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Links in episode:
https://www.sba.gov/person/francisco-sanchez-jr
https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-locations/headquarters-offices/office-disaster-assistance
https://www.americaadapts.org/episodes/2022/7/22/small-business-administrations-office-of-disaster-assistance-adapts-to-climate-change-with-associate-administrator-francisco-sanchez-jr

Previous America Adapts highlighted in this episode:

Fundamentals of Wildfire, Land Management and Climate Change with Dr. Brandon Collins of UC Berkeley
Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Brandon Collins, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and the lead scientist at Berkeley Forests. As wildfires rage in the Western U.S., why are some areas more prone to out of control fires than others?  Brandon explains the ecology of western forests and some of the management options to mitigate against these extreme events. We also discuss the growing impact of climate on these catastrophic fires and why the land management of a hundred years ago is making it harder for these landscapes to adapt to climate change.

Extreme Heat in the News, Naming Heat Waves, Thermal Equity and more with Dr. Ladd Keith
Doug talks extreme heat with Dr. Ladd Keith, Assistant Professor in Planning and Chair of Sustainable Built Environments at the University of Arizona. Ladd and Doug discuss the media coverage of the recent pacific northwest heat wave; is naming heat waves a bad idea; will extreme heat be included in managed retreat discussions; Miami’s new Chief Heat officer; the challenge of tying mortalities to heat events; thermal equity; air conditioning shaming and much more.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here!

The 10 Best Sustainability Podcasts for Environmental Business Leaders
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/blog/10-best-sustainability-podcasts-environmental-business-leaders

The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/

7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
https://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813

Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa
https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU

America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.”

Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!

For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.  

Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions
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America Adapts on Facebook!  
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Executive Producer Dr. Jesse Keenan
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