OFFICIAL SITE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
Building a Climate Ready NJ
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Coastal Management Program, in collaboration with 15 New Jersey-based partners, is pursuing Building a Climate Ready NJ, the state’s largest transformational resilience initiative to date.
Led by New Jersey’s Chief Resilience Officer, Building a Climate Ready NJ harnesses the expertise of a collaborative of New Jersey-based partners to advance resilience planning, project design, construction, and education across the state’s 16 coastal counties.
These counties represent 432 municipalities, 47% of which are identified as overburdened and disadvantaged communities and who are prioritized to benefit from this initiative. The region includes some of the most densely developed areas in the country, New Jersey’s largest cities and most rural landscapes, some of our most ecologically critical coastal, estuarine, and riverine areas, and diverse geographic and socio-economic community profiles.
Building a Climate Ready NJ will implement multiple projects that increase community and ecological resilience, make climate resilience planning accessible to a greater number of New Jersey communities, and support them in bringing those plans to fruition with comprehensive technical assistance and robust education, outreach, and engagement.
Building a Climate Ready NJ encompasses four broad components:
NJ Education, Climate Awareness, Training, and Engagement (NJ EduCATE)
Resilience Planning
Resilience Project Design Pipeline
Transformational Resilience Project Implementation
Building a Climate Ready NJ Fact Sheet
Read more about Building a Climate Ready NJ’s planned initiatives, projects, and partners.
This work is funded by the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, a one-time $575 million funding opportunity administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office for Coastal Management. This competitive grant program, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, focused on collaborative projects that increase the resilience of coastal communities to extreme weather and other climate change impacts, including sea-level rise and drought.
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