"Exploring Biden's Climate Resilience Initiatives: From White House Summit to Green Jobs and Climate Action Corps"

The Biden-Harris Administration hosted the first-ever White House Climate Resilience Summit, highlighting the urgent need to address climate change impacts. The Administration announced over $500 million in additional investments for resilience efforts, including boosting climate resilience in buildings, strengthening the power grid, promoting climate-resilient building codes, advancing federal agency leadership in climate adaptation planning, establishing new community climate resilience centers, bolstering workforce and community benefits, and ensuring resilient lands and waters. The National Climate Resilience Framework was also released, providing a vision for a climate-resilient nation and guiding federal government investments. Philanthropic organizations committed over $800 million to support climate resilience priorities.