Resilience
A home still standing after a wildfire is an example of this concept.
What is resilience?
The ability of a system to withstand hazards and recover quickly.
What is resilience?
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This climate hazard is slowly flooding coastal areas.
What is sea level rise?
This president's administration is focusing on resilience.
Who is Joe Biden?
A disaster such as a storm is an example of this
What is a shock?
A long-term such as sea level rise is an example of this.
This program teaches climate change, adaptation strategies, and advocacy skills.
What is the RYN Fellowship?
Andrew, Irma, and Ian are examples of this disaster.
What is a hurricane?
This agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
What is the Paris Agreement?
The likelihood of a hazard causing harm.
Risk
Something that has the potential to cause harm.
What is a hazard?
This is an initiative that RYN is working on.
What is a local chapter in Miami?
The American West is currently experiencing this phenomenon.
What is drought?
This law passed in 2022 provides federal money for climate adaptation projects.
What is the infrastructure bill (Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act)?
This man-made structure is used to protect against flooding.
What are sea walls?
This is a form of advertisement in which "green" marketing is deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims, and policies are environmentally friendly.
What is greenwashing?
RYN teaches about this grassroots effort to create change.
What is climate advocacy?
This climate hazard causes the most deaths yearly.
What is extreme heat?
A series of projects that will transform the future of Miami by investing a total of $400 million in five key categories, which align with the City's most pressing needs: Sea-Level Rise and Flood Prevention, Roadways, Parks and Cultural Facilities, Public Safety and Affordable Housing.
What is the Miami Forever Bond?
Explain the difference between sustainability and resilience.
Sustainability focuses on conserving resources and renewing the health of the environment for the future while resilience focuses on the ability to withstand climate hazards and bounce back after a crisis.
This discriminatory practice resulted in neighborhoods with high numbers of minority and low-income residents that now face worse climate risks than wealthy neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
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What is the Building Better blog?
How many lives does extreme heat take per year in the US?
1,300
This program shares the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and reduces flood damage by restricting floodplain development.
What is the national flood insurance program (NFIP)?