Widespread extreme heat across the United States and recent wildfires spotlights the urgent need for comprehensive action to protect residents and communities. As wildfires become more frequent and destructive due to prolonged droughts and extreme heat, local governments must prioritize not only immediate response efforts, but long-term recovery and nature-based resilience planning to reduce future fire risk.
Join the National League of Cities and ICF as we launch a new Wildfire Resilience Toolkit for Local Governments. The toolkit will highlight potential co-benefits of mitigation measures, identify beneficial emerging technologies and outline technical approaches to evaluate present and future wildfire risk and broadly applicable mitigation strategies for building wildfire resilience.
This webinar will feature local government successes and challenges with risk assessment, wildfire response and recovery, emerging technologies, and nature-based resilience planning.
Speakers
- Carolyn Berndt, Legislative Director for Sustainability, National League of Cities
- Billy Grayson, Executive Director, ICF Climate Center
- Mason Fried, Director, Climate Science and Resilience, ICF
- Brigid Deegan, Senior Specialist, Climate Resilience, National League of Cities
Note: Registration link will take you to a non-NLC web page.