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insurance
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Insurers’ Resilience Toolkit: A Practical Taxonomy of Climate Adaptation and Resilience Measures for and by the Insurance Sector
Insurers, reinsurers, and brokers are extending their role beyond distributing climate-related losses to actively enabling resilience. The Insurers’ Resilience Toolkit is a slide deck-style guide by the Environmental Defense Fund. It breaks down how the global insurance sector supports individuals, businesses, and communities in managing physical climate risks, while identifying the conditions needed to scale these efforts.
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Insurers’ Resilience Toolkit: A Practical Taxonomy of Climate Adaptation and Resilience Measures for and by the Insurance Sector
Insurers, reinsurers, and brokers are extending their role beyond distributing climate-related losses to actively enabling resilience. The Insurers’ Resilience Toolkit is a slide deck-style guide by the Environmental Defense Fund. It breaks down how the global insurance sector supports individuals, businesses, and communities in managing physical climate risks, while identifying the conditions needed to scale these efforts.
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Building Urban Flood Resilience with Ecosystem Services
This report from the Liberty Mutual Climate Transition Center and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship examines how nature-based solutions can help communities reduce urban flood risk while improving long-term resilience. It offers recommendations for businesses, policymakers, and communities seeking to better manage flood risk. The report makes a case for corporate participation and emphasizes innovative strategies from nature-based solutions to financial investment mechanisms.
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Building Urban Flood Resilience with Ecosystem Services
This report from the Liberty Mutual Climate Transition Center and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship examines how nature-based solutions can help communities reduce urban flood risk while improving long-term resilience. It offers recommendations for businesses, policymakers, and communities seeking to better manage flood risk. The report makes a case for corporate participation and emphasizes innovative strategies from nature-based solutions to financial investment mechanisms.
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NYC Flood Hazard Mapper
The NYC Flood Hazard Mapper is an interactive tool created by the NYC Department of City Planning to help residents, businesses, and planners understand flood risks across New York City. It provides maps showing current coastal flood hazards, FEMA flood zones, and areas that may be affected by sea level rise in the future. By searching an address or exploring different map layers, users can see how flooding may impact specific neighborhoods today and under future climate conditions.
This resource is designed to support safer decision making as the frequency and severity of flooding increases. While the mapper offers valuable visual data and projections, it is meant for general information only and should not replace official FEMA resources or professional guidance. Users are encouraged to use this tool as a starting point to learn about local flood exposure and to explore how environmental changes may affect communities throughout the city.
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NYC Flood Hazard Mapper
The NYC Flood Hazard Mapper is an interactive tool created by the NYC Department of City Planning to help residents, businesses, and planners understand flood risks across New York City. It provides maps showing current coastal flood hazards, FEMA flood zones, and areas that may be affected by sea level rise in the future. By searching an address or exploring different map layers, users can see how flooding may impact specific neighborhoods today and under future climate conditions.
This resource is designed to support safer decision making as the frequency and severity of flooding increases. While the mapper offers valuable visual data and projections, it is meant for general information only and should not replace official FEMA resources or professional guidance. Users are encouraged to use this tool as a starting point to learn about local flood exposure and to explore how environmental changes may affect communities throughout the city.
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Coastal Barrier Resources System Mapper
Signed into law on November 25, 2024, the bipartisan BEACH Act (BEACH Act; Pub. L. 118-117) reauthorizes the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) and updates maps for 454 coastal units across 13 U.S. states, including Connecticut. The revised Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) maps are now effective and available through the CBRS Mapper
The BEACH Act expands eligibility for federal flood insurance and financial assistance in areas removed from the CBRS, while limiting new federal funding in areas added to the system. It also introduces new requirements for CBRA disclosures during real estate transactions, guidance for emergency coastal projects, and research initiatives on coastal barrier ecosystem dynamics.
Agencies involved:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Geological Survey.
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Coastal Barrier Resources System Mapper
Signed into law on November 25, 2024, the bipartisan BEACH Act (BEACH Act; Pub. L. 118-117) reauthorizes the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) and updates maps for 454 coastal units across 13 U.S. states, including Connecticut. The revised Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) maps are now effective and available through the CBRS Mapper
The BEACH Act expands eligibility for federal flood insurance and financial assistance in areas removed from the CBRS, while limiting new federal funding in areas added to the system. It also introduces new requirements for CBRA disclosures during real estate transactions, guidance for emergency coastal projects, and research initiatives on coastal barrier ecosystem dynamics.
Agencies involved:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Geological Survey.
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Climate Risk Mapping Tool for Connecticut Residents
Connecticut Insurance Department CID, in Collaboration with First Street Foundation, provides climate related risk mapping tool for Connecticut residents. This tool allows users to search Connecticut property addresses to view maps and reports that provide detailed property-specific climate risk assessments, particularly for flood, wildfire, extreme heat, and hurricane wind hazards. This free risk mapping tool allows homeowners, home buyers, small-business owners, and community leaders to identify the risks using state-of-the-art climate risk mapping technology.
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Climate Risk Mapping Tool for Connecticut Residents
Connecticut Insurance Department CID, in Collaboration with First Street Foundation, provides climate related risk mapping tool for Connecticut residents. This tool allows users to search Connecticut property addresses to view maps and reports that provide detailed property-specific climate risk assessments, particularly for flood, wildfire, extreme heat, and hurricane wind hazards. This free risk mapping tool allows homeowners, home buyers, small-business owners, and community leaders to identify the risks using state-of-the-art climate risk mapping technology.
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: Sep 18, 2026
FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current FY 2026
FEMA’s Fiscal Year 2026 Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current provides $600 million to mitigate flood risks for properties insured through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) after a flood-related, major disaster declaration. The local government is considered the subapplicant and will develop a subapplication with any interested property owners. Application deadlines vary by state.
FEMA will accept applications upon activation for major disaster declarations of flood-related events that occurred between June 1, 2025, and May 31, 2027. Eligible project types include: Property acquisition and structure demolition or relocation; Structure elevation; Dry floodproofing of historic residential buildings or non-residential structures; Non-structural retrofitting of existing structures and facilities; Mitigation reconstruction; and Structural retrofitting of existing structures.
Funding
: Sep 18, 2026
FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current FY 2026
FEMA’s Fiscal Year 2026 Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current provides $600 million to mitigate flood risks for properties insured through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) after a flood-related, major disaster declaration. The local government is considered the subapplicant and will develop a subapplication with any interested property owners. Application deadlines vary by state.