U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

A website and mapping platform that integrates real-time information from across the federal government to help people consider their local exposure to climate-related hazards such as drought, inland flooding, coastal flooding, wildfires and extreme heat.

The Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience's Priority Agenda Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America's Natural Resources is the result of an interagency effort to inventory and assess current policies, programs, and regulations.

The State Department's 2014 U.S. Climate Action Report details actions that the U.S. is taking domestically and internationally to address climate change.

The U.S. Climate Vulnerability Index helps you see which communities face the greatest challenges from the impacts of a changing climate. This tool shows what is driving the challenges, so policymakers and communities themselves can take action to build climate resilience where it is needed most.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change website emphasizes adaptation, mitigation and engagement to address impacts to wildlife and natural habitat. This includes Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change.

The Coastal Resilience Index tool helps communities examine how prepared they are for storms and storm recovery. To complete the assessment, community leaders can get together and use the tool to guide discussion about their community's resilience to coastal hazards.

The climate is changing and bringing more uncertainty to the future conditions of forests. As a landowner, you can make decisions to reduce the vulnerabilities and advance the resilience of your woods. Read these 12 steps to learn more about what you can do, today, to protect your woods.

The heirs’ property toolkit is a compilation of resources to support land trusts, agency staff and other stakeholders as they seek to resolve barriers to landownership and participation in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s programs.

Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change and approaches to adaptation or mitigation.