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A Year of Impact: Reflections on ASAP’s 2024 Projects and Programs

Dec 18, 2024

As we draw near the end of 2024, it’s a perfect opportunity to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments and milestones of the past year. At ASAP, we’ve had the privilege of collaborating with diverse partners, fostering growth, and making significant strides in climate adaptation and resilience. None of this would have been possible without the invaluable…

Welcome our new ASAP Board of Directors!

April 17, 2019

The American Society of Adaptation Professional is thrilled to announce the appointment of two new directors to our Board of Directors. These two new directors, Emily Wasley and Julia Kim, will join seven seated Board Members for an initial three year term of 2019 through 2022. Emily and Julia join the ASAP Board at an…

BIA Tribal Resilience Program

April 10, 2019

The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) launched the Tribal Climate Resilience Partnership and Technical Assistance Program in 2014 to help tribes prepare for climate change.Direct funding supports federally-recognized Tribes and Alaska Native communities in climate resilience planning through competitive awards for climate training, adaptation planning, vulnerability assessments, supplemental monitoring, capacity building, and ocean…

Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change – A State of the Art

April 1, 2019

Developed by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) in 2019, this report summarizes the findings of a survey of 15 Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCCs) that are supporting climate change action at the regional scale in the United States. RCCs are networks that coordinate adaptation (and sometimes mitigation) work across jurisdictional boundaries in municipal regions of the U.…

OneNYC 2050

April 1, 2019

OneNYC 2050 is the long-term strategic plan for the City of New York, New York – which is based on values of equity, growth, sustainability, resiliency, and diversity and inclusion. Building on prior long-term plans, OneNYC 2050 seeks to raise the bar set by its predecessors, PlaNYC (2007, 2011) and OneNYC (2015), by seeking to strengthen the democratic…

The Value of Resilience for Distributed Energy Resources: An Overview of Current Analytical Practices

April 1, 2019

This analysis from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) evaluates existing practices of calculating the value of resilience in Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) installed within an energy distribution system. The report examines how the value of resilience was calculated and was applied in both regulatory decision-making and non-regulatory cost-benefit analyses, and provides state…