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This report summarizes the most recent scientific understanding of climate risk factors pertinent to Greater Boston, including storms, precipitation, flooding, groundwater, temperatures, and sea-level rise.
In a five-year update on likely climate changes in the Boston area, researchers released findings which provide information on projected changes over this century to temperature, storms and precipitation, flooding, sea-level rise and groundwater.
The aim of this study is to provide the City of Boston with a preliminary assessment of the feasibilities and potential benefits, costs, and environmental impacts of three harbor-wide barrier configurations.
A new report from the university's Sustainable Solutions Lab offers several recommendations for climate financing, including both private and public sources at the federal, state, municipal, and district levels. Suggestions such as a statewide carbon tax, a tightened Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap, and a gasoline tax increase are also offered.
This report looks at different financial mechanisms for climate resilience.
Disaster Risk Reduction, Response and Sustainable Reconstruction: Capacity Building for Equitable Planning and Development
Degreeresilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity and trauma
Capacity building is critical to disaster preparedness, response and sustainable post-disaster reconstruction programs.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.