The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact family lost one of our greatest friends and champions on April 11: The Honorable Kristin Jacobs, State Representative and former Broward County Commissioner. Her death, at age 60, was a huge loss not only to her family and friends, but also the people of our region and the […]
Kristin. Say the name and many folks in Broward County know you’re talking about State Rep. Kristin Jacobs, whose death from cancer on Saturday leaves a gaping hole in our community’s heart.
The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is strongly committed to addressing sea level rise and other climate change impacts, and as such, has named its first District Resiliency Officer, Carolina Maran, Ph.D., P.E. In the new role, Maran is responsible for leading the District’s resilience efforts to support SFWMD’s mission; coordinating scientific data and […]
The 2020 legislative session has concluded with mixed results for climate change priorities. Florida legislators enacted the first major piece of climate-related legislation in a decade during the 2020 session. Senate Bill 178 – Public Financing of Construction Projects was unanimously adopted, and if signed by the Governor, will require the state, local governments, or […]
The city of West Palm Beach has been an active supporter of electric vehicle adoption for both its fleet and its citizens. The city recently partnered with Florida Power and Light (FPL) in a pilot program to jointly purchase five all-electric, zero-emissions activity buses that will be used for the city’s parks and recreation programming, […]
Communities around the globe are confronting unprecedented and challenging questions regarding potentially relocating out of harm’s way as a result of increasingly intense storm events, rising seas, devastating wildfires, and extreme heat resulting from climate change. It is no surprise that the low-lying Florida Keys are in many ways the proverbial tip of the spear […]
Milliman, one of the largest providers of actuarial services globally, recently released a white paper exploring the intersection of future flood hazard and income levels in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, as well as how flood insurance premiums may incent gentrification as a result of climate risk. The study first classified the region into four classifications […]
A joint venture between the South Florida Housing Link Collaborative, a group of national and regional community development financial institutions (CDFIs), community land trusts, and other nonprofit organizations, will use a three-year, $5 million investment by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to acquire and rehab 300 properties in low- and moderate-income communities near Brightline stations in […]
Given that transportation accounts for nearly half of the region’s emissions, the Compact Counties see significant opportunity to reduce emissions through the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) and supporting EV infrastructure. To this end, this fall, the Compact hosted a Regional Climate Action Plan implementation workshop on electric vehicles, which brought together key agencies from […]
At the 11th Annual Climate Leadership Summit hosted in Key West Dec. 3-5, the Compact released its third update to the Regionally Unified Sea Level Rise (SLR) Projections for Southeast Florida. The Compact first produced a Unified SLR Projection in 2011 in response to the multiplicity and diversity of local SLR projections—a barrier to achieving […]