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Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events.
Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat (again):
August was the warmest summer on record
Jackson hires consultants to help implement climate change plan By Anthony Warren | January 19, 2021 at 5:03 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 9:30 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A team of experts from across the country could help Jackson’s poorest residents better deal with the effects of climate change.
On Tuesday, the Jackson City Council approved bringing on seven consultants/consulting firms to help draw up plans for its “Going Green for a Cool, Healthy Jackson” initiative.
The consultants are being paid for with proceeds from a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Recently, the city received a nearly $476,000 award from the group to implement a climate change program.