Document highlights how organizations could begin structuring a comprehensive process for recording the impacts of extreme weather events in order to facilitate climate vulnerability assessments.
Federal Energy Management Program
November 1, 2024
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Resilience planning, particularly energy and water resilience planning, has been a key priority for the federal government for many years, leading federal agencies to develop processes for identifying and addressing critical resilience gaps at their facilities and sites.
Furthermore, recent federal policy, such as Executive Order 14008, is driving agencies to prioritize climate change impacts as a more central component of their resilience planning efforts.
To achieve this, federal sites must understand their vulnerability to climate change, which involves identifying climate hazards projected to impact the site, as well as understanding the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of the site.
This document highlights current limitations for developing event history assessments and suggests a framework for more consistently capturing key data points.
The purpose of this paper is to help inform how organizations could begin structuring a comprehensive process for recording the impacts of extreme weather events in order to facilitate climate vulnerability assessments, and thus, resilience planning.