Climate Preparedness

This section is for commets on ways we can increase our community's readiness and ability to respond to climate-related disasters.

Possible objectives include:

• Engage disaster management community, city, private sector partners, and other jurisdictions (like school districts) to encourage them to integrate projections of changing climate.
• Disaster management planning should include special considerations for low-income and other vulnerable populations.
• Disaster plans should be communicated to low-income and other vulnerable populations to ensure their preparedness for extreme weather and climate change events.
• Ensure local capacity to meet food needs to survive changes to climate on a local and non-local setting
• Expanding capacity and collaboration to insure that Austin can address climate change refugees
• Encouraging all families and/or individuals to have disaster plans through education and awareness-raising activities.
• Meet Austin' energy demand through a distributed energy system with a diverse portffolio of generation sources with multiple energy sources for critical services.
• Adequate water and wastewater systems with divers sources and faciliteis that limit the impacts of climate related stressors on natural and human systems.
• Decrease current stressors and develop systems that support habitat, wildlife, and native and adaptive plant types that can adapt to changing climate conditions.