Nick Carter April 8, 2021
Tom Panetta is a standing member of the Lewes Board of Public Works, the Lewes Planning Commission, and the sea level rise subcommittee. Other planning commissioners also serve on the sea level rise subcommittee and have drafted two city code ordinances which will alter building requirements for property owners in the water recharge area. Once drafted, the foreboding, restrictive building ordinance recommendations were then presented back to themselves as planning commissioners for approval. Is this not a conflict of interest?
The Sea Level Rise Ordinance proposes elevating the first floor of new structures above the floodplain by 18 inches, plus an additional sea level rise index, but does not allow equivalent height elevation.
Van Oord presents Climate Risk Overview
Van Oord has launched the Climate Risk Overview, a global online tool that combines multiple data layers and enables users to identify the world’s most-at-risk coastal areas. The tool is in the public domain and anyone can use it. Van Oord unveiled the new tool during the international Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021, the company said in its release.
The Climate Risk Overview is the result of a collaboration between Van Oord and the Global Centre on Adaptation. The launch has therefore preceded the ‘official handover’ to co-chair Mr Ban Ki-moon, who will come to the Netherlands later this year. Van Oord is using the tool to drive discussion of knowledge-sharing, public-private partnerships and mobilisation of the necessary financing to deliver solutions to vulnerable areas.