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Vermont climate office outlines Resilience Implementation Strategy, aims to prioritize projects and funding by July 1
Summary
Climate Action Office staff told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on March 28 that the Resilience Implementation Strategy will inventory state programs, prioritize actions and work with the treasurer’s office on costs and financing; the office expects a final strategy by July 1 and further public engagement in May.
Mary Woles, resilience adaptation coordinator in the Climate Action Office, told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on March 28 that the agency will complete a Resilience Implementation Strategy (RIS) by July 1 and use it to prioritize state-level resilience needs and identify ways to fund them.
The RIS, Woles said, was announced by the governor and the treasurer in early 2024 and later was incorporated into the Climate Superfund Act (Act 122). "The resilience implementation strategy will be complete on July first of this year and is intended to complement the completion of the climate action plan," Woles said.
The nut graf: the Climate Action Office presented a three-phase effort intended to catalog existing state resilience work, identify gaps and opportunities, and then partner with the treasurer’s office to estimate costs and potential financing for prioritized investments. The presenters said the strategy is meant to focus on state government activities — and to…
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