Special Webinar – University-City Collaborations on Climate Action: Best Practices

  • On May 26, 2021
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The Biden Administration has advanced new climate initiatives that will greatly accelerate and reinvigorate the federal government’s engagement in urgently needed climate action, including the U.S.’s rejoining of the Paris Agreement. Although the previous administration withdrew from direct action, municipalities, states, and other subnational organizations continued their work on climate issues. “We are still in” […]
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Planning for Extreme Heat Events in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • On May 20, 2020
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Most cities and states in the U.S. Northeast region have adopted a set of programs to enhance community resilience to extreme heat events, often involving the opening of cooling centers or promoting the use of shared cooler spaces, as well as increased access to private air conditioning. With the COVID-19 outbreak and the need for […]
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Adapting Stormwater Management to a Changing Climate in the Mid-Atlantic and Urban Northeast Regions

  • On March 6, 2020
  • Workshops
Because extreme rainfall events have exposed critical gaps in planning, the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) and the Mid- Atlantic Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (MARISA) focused this workshop on urban stormwater management. This workshop examined the challenges of integrated planning within today’s regulatory context, discussed decision support needs for climate […]
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Promoting Successful Local Coastal Resiliency Policies and Programs: Addressing Key Knowledge Gaps

  • On June 25, 2019
  • Workshops
CCURN hosted a series of workshops entitled Promoting Successful Local Coastal Resiliency Policies and Programs: Addressing Key Knowledge Gaps. They were held at Stony Brook University in Suffolk County, New York, and another at Monmouth University in New Jersey. The objective of the workshops was to bring together local practitioners and policy makers in the […]
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At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience Building in the Coastal Zone

  • On June 19, 2019
  • Workshops
CCRUN and partners organized a conference on managed retreat, entitled “At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience Building in the Coastal Zone”, hosted by the Climate Adaptation Initiative at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, which took place on June 19- 21, 2019. As one of the first major academia-led conferences on the subject, the event convened diverse […]
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NOAA Congressional Roundtable

  • On June 19, 2019
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On June 19, 2019, CCRUN hosted a NOAA Roundtable for Congressional Staffers: Building Partnerships for Resilient Communities. The event was held at The Point CDC, a community center in the Bronx, New York in New York’s 15th Congressional District. Approximately 40 local decision makers attended, including representations from the National Weather Weather, City of New […]
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Workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University

  • On May 29, 2019
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The last few years have seen emerging recognition of the societal impacts associated with climate extremes that occur close together in space or time. There is also growing evidence that we may be approaching critical “tipping points” in the climate system. The close interconnectivity of systems and networks makes certain combinations of events especially hazardous […]
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New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) 10th Anniversary Event

  • On March 15, 2019
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On March 15, 2019, an event entitled “Science for Decision- Making in a Warmer World: 10 Years of the NPCC” was held at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. CCRUN researchers have played an integral role in the work of the NPCC, which was celebrated at this event. The summit also […]
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National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) Workshop

  • On October 18, 2018
  • Workshops
CCRUN’s public health and social science teams assisted with the planning of, and participated in, a heat-health workshop in Massachusetts as part of NOAA’s NIHHIS program. NIHHIS works to understand how decision-makers in many disciplines are working to manage heat-health risks, and to improve and integrate the information available for this purpose. The goal of […]
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Waterfront Conference

  • On May 8, 2018
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The Waterfront Alliance, a CCRUN stakeholder, holds an annual Waterfront Conference including hundreds of stakeholders from government, business and regional neighborhoods. At the 2018 event, there was a session titled, “What Have Scientists Learned about Flood Risk and Climate Change?” The objective of this session was to share with practitioners and the general public our […]
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