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Funding Builds on Efforts to Enhance Climate Change Resilience as President Biden Visits FEMA Ahead of Hurricane Season
Today, President Biden will meet with members of his homeland security and climate teams at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C. to receive an update on preparations for the 2021 hurricane season. In advance of the President’s visit, the Administration is announcing it will direct $1 billion for communities, states, and Tribal governments into pre-disaster mitigation resources to prepare for extreme weather events and other disasters, and the Administration is announcing the development of next generation climate data systems at NASA to help understand and track how climate change is impacting communities.
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By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 22, 2021 The Defense Department announced Thursday it would complete assessments of climate-related hazards to all major installations in the continental United States within 12 months. It set a goal of completing similar assessments at all major installations outside the U.S. within two years, the Pentagon said in a news release. The announcement dovetailed with President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate on Thursday, a virtual gathering during which he pledged America would cut emissions by at least half of 2005 levels by 2030. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has brought a new sense of urgency to addressing climate change as a national and global security issue.