Climate Ready America is an initiative of the Geos Institute that aims to ensure that all communities have access to the climate resilience assistance they need, regardless of their size, location, or wealth.

A scalable, collaborative service delivery system that helps communities adapt to changing climate conditions and reduce climate pollution, Climate Ready America aligns in-state efforts, connects service providers, and amplifies proven solutions while reducing duplication and inefficiency. This flexible, iterative structure builds on what works to ensure communities and climate organizations can thrive and make measurable progress toward national climate targets.

Climate Ready America is designed to work where climate resilience action matters most - at the local level. Each Climate Innovation Center is guided by in-state climate leaders who understand the realities and needs of the communities it serves. Navigators are hosted by trusted in-state organizations and provide direct resilience services to under-resourced communities. Regional Collaboratives and a National Strategy Team made up of partner organizations amplify successful approaches, address systemic challenges on a broader level, and ensure that proven solutions scale across states. Together, these components create a coherent, flexible system that strengthens existing climate services as well as our national climate response.

Climate Ready America is underway in the southeast, with Navigators hosted by in-state partners serving frontline communities in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and with Georgia soon to launch the first Climate Innovation Center.  The Geos Institute and its partners are expanding the initiative across the Gulf states by placing Navigators in each Gulf state and leveraging their knowledge to build each Climate Innovation Center.

This session will offer an overview of this system and show participants how they can become involved in this ambitious effort.