{"id":18716,"date":"2023-06-20T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:18:01","slug":"climate-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/climate-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces investment of $600 million for climate resilience in his visit to Palo Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: California Governor's Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It's Monday, the president Joseph Biden<\/a> announced a $600 million investment for climate resilience projects across the country and an additional $67 million to help build power lines that support California's transition to 100 percent clean electricity by 2045.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his visit to Baylands Nature Preserve, one of the largest expanses of pristine wetlands remaining in San Francisco Bay, the president stressed the need to accelerate projects to combat climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n

"In our history, we are the only nation in the world that has emerged from a crisis stronger than we entered. We're doing it again here on the climate crisis. When I think about climate, I think about jobs. When I think about climate, I think about innovation. When I think about climate, I think about turning danger into progress," Biden said.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his speech, the President recalled that last year alone, natural disasters in the United States caused 165 billion dollars in damages, but the worsening of the impacts is not inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that starting tomorrow, the Department of Commerce will launch the first and largest competitive Regional Climate Resilience Challenge to provide $600 million to coastal and Great Lakes communities that are building projects to protect against the climate change impacts of rising sea levels, flooding and storm surge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: California Governor's Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Biden also stressed that later this year, the first White House summit will be held that will bring together local, state, tribal and territorial leaders focused on climate change resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n

This, he said, will include a roadmap for how the various climate actions being taken will build more climate-resilient communities across the United States, saving lives and homes and providing peace of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that regard, he noted, his administration is taking the most aggressive climate action in history, focusing on mitigation, which means investments in the development of clean energy by reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and on resilience, so that communities can better withstand the impacts of climate change and extreme weather conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

He explained that with a combination of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, more than $50 billion has been invested so far in climate resilience; nearly $9 billion to make transportation infrastructure more resilient by raising roads and bridges above projected flood zones; and $13 billion to reduce the risk of wildfires and improve the health of forests and pay firefighters who risk their lives every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also explained that $15.4 billion has been invested in drought mitigation, $6.6 billion in restoring the coastal resilience of reefs and building other infrastructure to mitigate storm damage.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to more than $17 billion through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act to strengthen the resilience of coastal water and waterway infrastructure, including funding to address food, flood, storm, and hurricane risks, and restore coastal ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly $20 billion in funding for precision irrigation and cover crop planting, plus $1 billion from the America the Beautiful Challenge to accelerate local conservation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

While $3.5 billion has been directed to reduce or eliminate the risk of repeated flood damage to buildings, another $1 billion will fund mitigation measures that increase community resilience, such as supporting the adaptation of hazard-resistant building codes.<\/span><\/p>\n

For his part, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who accompanied the president during his visit to the Bay Area, highlighted the importance of projects and investments that address the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: California Governor's Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWildfires, heat waves, and extreme shifts from drought to flooding in California show how climate change is impacting our communities. There is no better partner in the fight against climate change than President Biden, who is making unprecedented investments and addressing this crisis with urgency. This new federal funding will support our ongoing climate action to protect our coastal communities from rising oceans and generate the clean energy we need,\u201d she stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Five of the most polluted beaches in California are from San Mateo County<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Es lunes, el presidente Joseph Biden anunci\u00f3 una inversi\u00f3n de 600 millones de d\u00f3lares para proyectos de resiliencia clim\u00e1tica en todo el pa\u00eds y 67 millones m\u00e1s para ayudar a construir l\u00edneas el\u00e9ctricas que apoyen la transici\u00f3n de California a una electricidad 100 por ciento limpia para 2045. Durante su visita a Baylands Nature Preserve, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-habitat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}