To coincide with the release of the Task Force report described above, the White House announced the availability of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. The toolkit is intended to provide a “centralized, authoritative, easy-to-use information, tools, and best practices to help communities prepare for and boost their resilience to the impacts of climate change.” It is an amalgamation of information and tools from federal agencies and case study vignettes from communities represented by Task Force members. It is organized into five sections:
- Getting started outlines a five-step process that a community can take to address climate resilience;
- Taking Action and Topics are a combination of information from the recent National Climate Assessment, video stories and vignettes of how communities and businesses are working to build resilience;
- Tools includes 85 linked tools, including more than 40 that address coastal resilience and sea level rise.
- Expertise allows users to identify climate experts from NOAA, USDA, Interior and state climatologists. Also available are online training courses for the National Weather Service Local Climate Analysis Tool and climate-specific training resources from MetEd, “a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community.”