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The Resilience Commitment is focused on climate adaptation and community capacity-building to deal with a changing climate and resulting extremes.

The Resilience Team, formed in 2019, was charged because of a joint climate resilience proclamation from the University of Illinois and the cities of Urbana and Champaign. Its charge is to liaise with SWATeams to develop recommendations that may be sent to the iCAP Working Group, the cities, or both.

This Resilience Team will carry on the work previously begun by the Champaign County Climate Resilience Task Force (see below), bringing campus and the greater community together to address what must be done to prepare for vulnerabilities to extreme weather and other results of climate change.

iCAP Teams report annually on progress made toward Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) objectives in their area of focus, and the Resilience Team is meeting monthly to advocate for meeting the iCAP 2020 objectives related to Resilience.

Background

This team focuses on the objectives found in Chapter 8 of the iCAP 2020:

8.1 Develop a coordinated urban biodiversity master plan by FY24 to make the Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, and campus metro area a model for biodiversity.

8.2 Coordinate rainwater management plans for the entire urbanized areas of Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, and the university. Starting in FY21, share the total number of green infrastructure locations on the iCAP Portal on an annual basis.

8.3 Develop a collaborative plan for environmental justice that will assess metro area resilience and actively address related issues. The plan will be written and publicized by FY24.

8.4 Take leadership in addressing the most pressing sustainability challenges in our local communities through collaboration with local governments and related community groups, by forming an advisory panel for coordinating efforts across jurisdictional boundaries. By FY24, select at least three major local sustainability issues to address and identify lead agency and key stakeholders.

8.5 By FY23, collaborate with colleges and community groups to inventory existing certification opportunities for green jobs and identify gaps.

8.6 Support Vision Zero as a county-wide goal for safe and sustainable transportation.

8.7 Establish a local offsets program by FY24.

 

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Project Team

  • Primary Contact:

    Gina Fumagalli

    Project Leader:

    Morgan White and Scott Tess

    Team Members:

    • Ximing Cai
    • Sally McConkey
    • Warren Lavey
    • Stacy Gloss
    • Lacey Rains Lowe
    • Dennis Donaldson
    • Lisa Merrifield
    • Meredith Moore
    • Joseph Park
    • Asli Topuzlu
    • Genevieve Zilmer

    Prior Contacts:

    • Micah Kenfield

Dates

  • Proposed January 1, 2016
    Proposed by Ben McCall
    Approved March 2, 2016
    Approved by Interim Chancellor Barb Wilson

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