INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Through Executive Order No. 89, the Interagency Council on Climate Resilience (Interagency Council) was established to develop short- and long-term action plans that will promote the mitigation, adaptation, and resilience of New Jersey’s economy, communities, infrastructure, and natural resources. The Interagency Council supports the development and implementation of New Jersey’s Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy, the foundational policy framework guiding state agency actions to address the impacts of climate change.

Nick Angarone, New Jersey’s Chief Resilience Officer, serves as the Vice Chair of the Interagency Council, which has 26 member agencies. He also directs the Office of Climate Resilience, which was established within the Department of Environmental Protection to provide strategic direction and support to the Interagency Council on Climate Resilience and other cross-departmental climate change resilience initiatives.

2021 New Jersey Climate Change Resilience Strategy

New Jersey’s Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy provides a suite of forward-looking policy recommendations to promote the state’s long-term resilience to climate change. As a framework for policy, regulatory, and operational changes, the Resilience Strategy presents actions that New Jersey’s Executive Branch departments and agencies can take to support the resilience of the state’s communities, economy, and infrastructure. The Resilience Strategy includes 126 recommended actions across six priority areas.

Climate Change Resilience Strategy at-a-glance

Climate Change Resilience Strategy Two-Year Anniversary Accomplishment Report

Since the release of the Climate Change Resilience Strategy in October 2021, the Interagency Council continues to work to turn the vision into action. These efforts have been summarized in the Two-Year Anniversary Accomplishments Report . For more information on this publication, please see the accompanying press release.

Statewide Resilience Action Plans

Over the coming years, the Interagency Council will release a series of Resilience Action Plans, building on the Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy, described above. Resilience Action Plans will provide more detail on how the recommendations of the Resilience Strategy are being implemented and will identify new, existing, and expanded actions that address climate impacts.

Each of the Resilience Action Plans will focus on a specific climate threat to New Jersey, the first being extreme heat. The first Resilience Action Plan will focus on extreme heat.

The Interagency Council publication entitled “State Agency’s Actions to Increase Resilience to Extreme Heat Due to Climate Change” outlines various initiatives underway, as well as short-term actions being advanced by Interagency Council member agencies to build extreme heat resilience in New Jersey.

Member Agencies

The Interagency Council on Climate Resilience consists of 26 member agencies, each contributing its unique expertise to advance New Jersey’s climate resilience goals. While collaboration is central to the Council’s efforts, individual agencies play distinct roles by leveraging their specialized knowledge, which is highlighted through Memember Agency Profiles, which provide brief overviews of agency-specific climate resilience activities.

Select an agency from the list below to explore the Member Agency Profiles.