CA Certification Training, October, 2020
NAACP and Climate Central co-hosted a 9-hour Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise and Flood Management Response Training along with the technical partners of Valley Water and The Association of State Floodplain Management (ASFPM) on October 16-17, 2020. The event was sponsored by Valley Water. Access workshop listings here.
The training is a key requirement of NAACP's Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise and Flood Management Response Certification Program.
FACILITATORS
➢ Jacqueline Patterson, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP
➢ Dan Rizza, Program on Sea Level Rise, Climate Central
➢ Chad Berginnis, ASFPM: The Association of State Floodplain Management
PROGRAM - DAY 1
Kathy Egland, Chairman of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Board Committee, NAACP | Greetings & welcome
Nai Hsueh, Valley Water Board Chair | Greetings & welcome
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Certification Program and Training Overview
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Sea Level Rise & The NAACP Civil Rights Advocacy Agenda
Don Bain and Kelly Van Baalen, Climate Central | Overview of Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk
Kristen Brown, NAACP | Youth Activism on Sea Level Rise
Don Bain, Climate Central | Assessing Risk of Coastal Flooding
Dan Rizza, Climate Central | Identifying What Is At Risk
Chad Berginnis, Executive Director, ASFPM | Urban Flooding Risk and Management
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Conducting a Community Vulnerability Assessment
PROGRAM - DAY 2
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Introduction
Marta Lugo & Brian Mendenhall, Valley Water | A Case Study in Securing Local Funding for Critical Flood Management Programs
California State and Local Sea Level Rise and Flood Management Panel
- Jessica Ludy, US Army Corps of Engineers
- Mark Boucher, Contra Costa Co. Flood Control & Water Conservation District
- Roxanne Grillo, Valley Water
- Julie Renter, River Partners
- Sara Agahi, San Diego Co. Flood Control District
- Sumi Selvaraj, California Coastal Commission
Breakout Discussions
Video: Sea Level Rise: Living with Water - Discussion
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise Response—Policy Platform
NAACP Participants, Developing Local Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise Response Plans - Facilitated Action Planning
Kathy Egland, NAACP | Closing Remarks
View completed workshops, case studies, events | Contact us at sealevel@climatecentral.org
Flooded Future: Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood
- As a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels could within three decades push chronic floods higher than land currently home to 300 million people
- By 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line
- The new figures are the result of an improved global elevation dataset produced by Climate Central using machine learning, and revealing that coastal elevations are significantly lower than previously understood across wide areas
- The threat is concentrated in coastal Asia and could have profound economic and political consequences within the lifetimes of people alive today
- Findings are documented in a new peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature Communications
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Report: Web Version and PDF