Compact Documents

Southeast Florida residents and communities face a wide range of economic and health challenges, which are exacerbated by climate-related extreme heat and weather disasters.

Among the issues residents face are lack of job accessibility and stability, high housing and energy costs and eviction risks, as well as housing-related health and safety issues. One important tool for addressing high energy and housing costs is energy efficiency, (EE) a least-cost resource for meeting household and business energy needs. It is common for EE programs to be available through utilities and through federal programs designed to benefit lower-income households.

Elevasyon nivo lanmè dekri kijan oseyan yo ki nan mond la ap vin pi wo, an mwayèn, parapò ak nivo latè.

Tè ki nan konte Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, ak Palm Beach sitiye pami nivo altitid ki pi ba yo nan peyi a, sa ki vin ekspoze rejyon nou an ak yon risk patikilye pou elevasyon nivo lanmè.

El aumento del nivel del mar describe cómo los océanos del mundo se están volviendo más altos, en promedio, en relación con la tierra.

La tierra de los condados de Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe y Palm Beach se encuentra en algunas de las elevaciones más bajas del país, lo que hace que nuestra región corra un riesgo especial de aumento del nivel del mar.

The Compact is pleased to share its newly developed resource, Sea Level Rise: Why is it Important to Me? The resource is available in English, Spanish and Creole. It provides support to local partners, community-based organizations, advocates, HOAs, and the general public in understanding what sea level rise is, what impacts it has on health, safety, infrastructure and wellbeing, and what can be done to address it.

This guidance document was developed by an equity advisory group to support local governments’ efforts to center equity in their
climate work, focusing on 11 priority climate mitigation and adaptation actions identified by the Southeast Florida Regional Climate
Change Compact as part of its Climate Assessment Tool. While this document is not meant to be exhaustive of every possible step
local governments can take to embed equity within their climate work, it presents a comprehensive list of activities that can
advance local government’s capacity to meaningfully address equitable climate action

This glossary provides definitions of key terms to support understand climate equity. 

The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s recently published an article on Designing the resilience coastal communities of the future: A Southeast Florida case study (pages 8-13), as part of the 2020 fall edition of the US CLIVAR Variations on US East Coast Sea Level Changes and Impacts. This publication highlights some of the forefront work that is being led by practitioners and decision makers in improving coastal resilience to sea level rise. 

The Variations is a non-peer reviewed publication for the ocean and climate science community that focuses on timely research questions and activities.  Download the digital version here.  

As part of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s ongoing efforts to build the capacity of practitioners and stakeholders in Southeast Florida to advance regional climate action, the Compact has developed an introductory report on electric vehicles and EV infrastructure. This compilation of resources builds on presentations and discussions from the Compact’s Fall 2019 workshop on electric vehicles and offers additional curated resources and guidance on opportunities for local governments to support the transition to and expansion of electric vehicles. The report outlines useful tools for localities to develop EV-ready communities, install EV infrastructure, and to transition public fleets to electric vehicles, while also providing leading best practices for policy design and regional coordination of EV charging infrastructure.

The Compact developed a comprehensive set of curated resources to support local governments, agencies, regional councils, regional resource management districts, and other local planners and practitioners in advancing the recommendations outlined in the Compact’s Regional Climate Action Plan (RCAP 2.0). Covering nearly all 142 RCAP recommendations and organized by RCAP topic areas, the resources offer vetted local case studies, example policy, data tools, and other guides to support localities designing and implementing emissions reduction and resilience-building activities and policies.

In the fall of 2018, the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact (the Compact), in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Southeast Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership, convened regional stakeholders—including local government staff, non-profit organizations, utility representatives, and institutional building facility managers—to learn from local and national resilient energy system experts during a two day-long implementation workshop titled Resilient Energy Systems. The convening is part of a workshop series designed to advance the implementation of the Climate Compact’s Regional Climate Action Plan and specifically focused on recommendations from the Energy and Fuel and Risk Reduction and Emergency Management chapters. This guidance report builds upon and supports the content presented at that workshop with the goal of providing local government staff and other stakeholders with a basic grounding in this topic. 

A guidance document created from presentations and remarks made at Regional Climate Action Plan Workshop #9 Reducing Climate Risk and Creating Economic Opportunity

To allow decision-makers to create more robust adaptation plans that include human health considerations, the Florida Institute for Health Innovation developed a technical assistance guidebook and toolkit for coastal communities that identifies communities most vulnerable to sea level rise impacts and specific potential public health risks.

The Regional Impacts of Climate Change and Issues for Stormwater Management compact guidance document is one in a series of publications designed to assist county and municipal policymakers, administrators and program staff with implementation of the 110 recommendations contained within the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s 2012 Regional Climate Action Plan.

This Compact Guidance Document is one in a series of publications designed to assist county and municipal policymakers, administrators and program staff with the nuts and bolts of voluntarily implementing the 110 recommendations contained within the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s 2012 Regional Climate Action Plan. The publication series is produced by the Institute for Sustainable Communities on behalf of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact with funding graciously provided by the Kresge Foundation.

RCAP Health Impact Assessment

An analysis from the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact Inundation Mapping and Vulnerability Assessment Work Group of the region’s vulnerability to sea level rise.