NEW JERSEY CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE STRATEGY
As directed by Executive Order No. 89 , the Chief Resilience Officer, with the support of the Interagency Council on Climate Resilience, developed a statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy. The Climate Change Resilience Strategy, released October 12, 2021, includes recommendations to promote the long-term mitigation, adaptation, and resilience of New Jersey’s economy, communities, infrastructure, and natural resources throughout the State.
2021 New Jersey Climate Change Resilience Strategy
New Jersey’s first statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy provides a suite of forward-looking policy options to promote the long-term resilience of New Jersey to climate change. As a framework for policy, regulatory, and operational changes, the Resilience Strategy presents actions that New Jersey’s Executive Branch can take to support the resilience of the state’s communities, economy, and infrastructure. The Resilience Strategy includes 127 recommended actions across six priority areas.
- Executive Summary
- Priority 1: Build Resilient and Healthy Communities
- Priority 2: Strengthen the Resilience of New Jersey’s Ecosystems
- Priority 3: Promote Coordinated Governance
- Priority 4: Invest in Information and Increase Public Understanding
- Priority 5: Promote Climate-Informed Investments and Innovative Financing
- Priority 6: Coastal Resilience Plan
- Next Steps
- Appendix: Shore Protection Fund Projects
Climate Change Resilience Strategy Two-Year Anniversary Accomplishment Report
Since the Resilience Strategy’s publication, the Interagency Council has grown to 22 executive branch agencies and departments, all of whom have been working to bring forth the Strategy’s vision for a more resilient and sustainable New Jersey. The Two-Year Anniversary Accomplishments Report showcases more than 40 regulatory and policy actions that state agencies have taken over the past two years to adapt and respond to climate change.
Scoping Document
The Interagency Council is expected to release an Extreme Heat Resilience Action Plan in spring 2024, furthering the state’s commitment to climate resilience. The Resilience Action Plan is similarly built on the foundations of the Resilience Strategy and offers a more detailed approach to ongoing and new state agency actions around the increasingly prevalent issue of extreme heat, in line with the Resilience Strategy’s recommendations. For more information about Resilience Action Plans and the development process, the Interagency Council has compiled a Scoping Document for the public to review.
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Kindly submit comments and questions to climateresilience@njdepwptest.net or by calling 609-322-9500.
