Advancing Resilience Solutions Through Regional Action
About the Compact
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact is a decade-old partnership between Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties, to work collaboratively to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions, implement adaptation strategies, and build climate resilience within their own communities and across the Southeast Florida region.
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“Five years ago, local leaders down here, Republicans and Democrats, formed the bipartisan Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact — an agreement to work together to fight climate change. And it’s become a model not just for the country, but for the world.”
– President Barack Obama
Compact News and Events
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Region’s resilience officers recognize climate threats and confident challenges being addressed
Resilience officers for the four counties of Southeast Florida, and members of the Compact’s Staff Steering Committe, respond to a recent op-ed on the threat of rising sea levels to water supplies in the region. Read the full op-ed by Dr. Jennifer Jurado, Jim Murley, Rhonda Haag, and Megan Houston.
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Gov. DeSantis names Florida’s first statewide Chief Resilience Officer
Miami Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his pick for Florida’s first Chief Resilience Officer Thursday evening as Julia Nesheiwat, a deputy special envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, confirming Miami Herald reporting from earlier this week.
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Florida newsrooms will partner to report on the state’s biggest threat – climate change
Following the award-winning editorial collaboration “The Invading Sea”, six of the leading news organizations in Florida have formed a partnership to share stories and work together to report on the complex challenges of climate change.
