The challenge: The Bay Area’s shoreline cities are being inundated with water, causing damage to homes and critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, towns further inland are grappling with repetitive flooding. And maybe the biggest challenge of all is that the people at highest risk of these climate impacts aren’t being heard.
The solution: Greenbelt Alliance is accelerating community awareness and participation in climate adaptation planning. We are forging relationships between local governments, climate-based organizations, and community members to overcome obstacles and catalyze effective and equitable flood adaptation efforts. Our work will support the jurisdictions at the highest risk of flooding to implement feasible plans that build resilience to inundation. Here’s how…
Greenbelt Alliance is working with vulnerable communities to share best practices and innovative resilience models that build natural resilience to floods. Through educational opportunities, we’re helping raise awareness around flood risks as well as offering creative mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Engaging with communities in this way breaks down barriers that often prevent learning and information sharing. This in turn, improves safety planning efforts and strengthens support for the protection of natural resources.
Greenbelt Alliance is working with vulnerable communities to develop creative advocacy campaigns that activate residents who are being impacted the most by flooding events.
By offering a platform that allows people from all walks of life the opportunity to speak and be heard, climate-resilient, equitable policies will prevail.
Greenbelt Alliance is working with public agencies to increase community participation in shoreline protection and adaptation efforts. We are also working with climate-based organizations to identify funding resources for nature-based solutions that bolster flood resilience. And we are connecting local and regional groups to work together to address watershed resilience.
Fostering this type of collaboration will lead to more equitable outcomes with a focus on nature and people.
After heavy rainfall combined with higher King Tides flooded the Bay Area, our communities and ecosystems can’t afford to wait any longer for adaptation to sea level rise.
After heavy rainfall combined with higher King Tides flooded the Bay Area, our communities and ecosystems can’t afford to wait any longer for adaptation to sea level rise.
Hundreds of homes and businesses across Marin County experienced historic-level flooding as King Tides combined with heavy rainfall.
On November 18th, Greenbelt Alliance in partnership with the Hayward Area Shoreline Resilience Collaborative hosted a workshop where neighbors and community members gathered at the Cherryland Community Center to explore and weigh in on plans to protect the Hayward Area Shoreline from sea level rise through three projects using nature-based solutions. Over 140 attendees joined
We’re thrilled to share that the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) unanimously voted to adopt the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP) Bay Plan Amendment on December 5, 2024! As sea levels continue to rise in the near and long-term, the need for a coordinated approach for sea level rise adaptation initiatives along the Bay
