The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a website designed to help people find and use tools, information, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience. The Toolkit offers information from all across the U.S. federal government in one easy-to-use location.
Purpose
The goal is to improve people’s ability to understand and manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help them make their communities and businesses more resilient to extreme events.
Authorization
The site was built in response to the President’s Climate Action Plan and Executive Order 13653 (Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change), which calls for the federal government to “...develop and provide authoritative, easily accessible, usable, and timely data, information, and decision-support tools on climate preparedness and resilience” to support federal, regional, state, local, tribal, private-sector, and nonprofit-sector efforts to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
The Executive Office of the President asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to lead development of the Toolkit, in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other departments and agencies in the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Management
The site is managed by NOAA’s Climate Program Office and is hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
Development
The Toolkit is built in the Drupal content management system. It was developed over a six-month period by a partnership of federal agencies and organizations led by NOAA and initially launched on November 17, 2014. Version 1.5—with a clean, mobile-friendly design—was launched in July 2016.
For more information, please visit our FAQ page.