Challenge description

Improving climate resilience involves assessing how climate change will create new, or alter current, climate-related risks, and taking steps to better cope with these risks. Local resilience efforts may include individual residents, neighborhoods, businesses, city planners and first responders – to cope with both chronic stresses (such as increasing temperatures) and acute shocks (such as extreme weather events).

Challenge vision

Solutions may focus on:

• upgrading transportation systems, improving neighborhood cohesion, changing transit routes
• updating building codes and using new materials
• creating innovative solutions for sustainable power systems
• upgrading supply and distribution chains
• make better use of existing, public and private distributed sensor platforms, exposing them to those interested