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Seattle Launches Climate Ready Curriculum to Boost Community Resilience
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In Short: Seattle introduces a new Climate Ready Curriculum to help communities prepare for climate impacts like extreme heat and flooding, prioritizing support for vulnerable groups.
Hot sunny days and irregular weather have officially hit Seattle for the summer, signaling the arrival of climate change impacts. While the city works to reduce emissions, it's also preparing communities for the climate changes they are already experiencing.
The new Climate Ready Curriculum, co-created by several community organizations, is designed to help neighbors prepare for climate threats specific to Seattle. The curriculum is free, live, and accessible for diverse ages, backgrounds, and levels of preparedness.
Seattle is updating its Climate Action Plan and encourages community involvement. The curriculum advances the plan's goals of building community resilience and ensuring solutions are scalable.
Prioritizing support for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, people with low incomes, outdoor workers, youth, elders, and those with disabilities, the city aims to ensure that climate resilience efforts are inclusive and effective.
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- Hot sunny days and irregular weather have officially hit Seattle for the summer.
- It’s not just you — yes, it feels hotter and more unpredictable each year due to climate change.
- While we work to reduce the emissions that cause climate change in the long term, we are also preparing communities for the climate impacts they are already experiencing.
- Climate change comes with hotter summers, warmer winters, and more severe impacts like flooding, extreme heat, and wildfire smoke.
- We prioritize our climate resilience efforts in communities hit first and worst, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, people with low incomes, outdoor workers, youth and elders, and…
- We’re excited to introduce Seattle’s new Climate Ready Curriculum, designed by community for community, to help neighbors prepare for climate change.
- The curriculum also advances the goals of Seattle’s Climate Action Plan, which will prioritize building community resilience and show that solutions must happen at all scales.
- We’re updating the Climate Action Plan and want you to help shape it!
Sources
- Seattle.govlink