Climate Resilience and Preparedness Task Force
Tribal Leaders: Chairwoman Karen Diver and Mayor Reggie Joule
Survey for Recommendations
Background
The President’s Climate Preparedness and Resilience Task Force (Task Force) was convened to develop recommendations on how the Federal government can better support local, state and tribal governments in achieving resilience through Disaster Preparedness, Built Systems, Natural Systems and Agriculture, and Community Development and Health.
The Task Force is charged with providing actionable strategies that can be implemented through existing agency authorities which: 1) remove barriers and create incentives and otherwise encourage investments in resilience; 2) provide useful tools and information, including through intergovernmental coordination; and 3) otherwise support state, local and tribal preparedness for resilience to climate change.
Request for Input
The two tribal leaders on the Climate Change Task Force, Chairwoman Karen Diver of the Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Mayor Reggie Joule of Alaska’s Northwest Arctic Borough, are soliciting your input in developing recommendations specific to:
1. disaster recovery and resilience,
2. infrastructure,
3. natural resources and agriculture, and
4. human health and community development.
Please consider contributing to this process with a brief response to the questions presented below and send your response to IndianCountry@who.eop.gov by Tuesday, April 15, 2014.
Consider a challenge you have encountered or an opportunity you have identified relating to climate preparedness planning and efforts to build resilience within one of the 4 topics listed above.
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