https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events/climate-justice-working-together-for-an-equitable-future monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events/new-us-climate-mapping-application-for-resilience-and-adaptation monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events/future-of-the-hudson-developing-a-climate-resilience-vision monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events/town-of-north-greenbush-completes-climate-smart-resiliency-evaluation monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1615232316152-5VY3ZWIL4IO9V1E1M7FB/TNG_CPCollage.jpg News & Events - Town of North Greenbush completes Climate Smart Resiliency evaluation https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/news-events/conserving-nature-in-your-community monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/home daily 1.0 2020-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1584041641294-ODD4PDE03BG4SF3VTF7F/image-asset.jpeg Home - Current & Ongoing Projects The CCE Climate Resilience project is working with municipalities and other organizations in the Hudson Valley and throughout New York State to address the concerns of climate change and to assist communities in developing resilient plans and tools. Here are a number of the current and ongoing projects that the team is involved in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1584041574856-K0UOG8QUUITBC9HW5N0T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Climate Smart Communities Climate Smart Communities is a New York State program that helps local governments take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. The CCE Climate Resilience project is actively involved with the Climate Smart Communities program, providing outreach, education, and technical assistance to Hudson Valley and New York State communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1584041724093-DEK3ZWYGTO2KRRWE4PKJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Resources for Communities A major component of the CCE Climate Resilience project is developing and compiling resources for municipal officials, highway personnel, local residents, and other community stakeholders that are based on sound science and current data. Here is a wealth of resources and tools that might be beneficial for you and your community. https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/climate-smart-communities daily 0.75 2021-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1614352562170-MIZLEF10Z6GI5UVI4K1C/image-asset.jpeg Climate Smart Communities - Climate Smart Communities Climate Smart Communities (CSC) is a New York State program that helps local governments take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. The program offers free technical assistance, grants, and resources for municipalities and other communities. Communities can pass the CSC pledge and commit to striving towards goals of climate mitigation and adaptation. Certified communities are the foremost leaders in the state in that they have gone beyond the CSC pledge by completing and documenting a suite of actions that mitigate and adapt to climate change at the local level. One of the Climate Resilience Partnership’s main goals is to assist communities in becoming “Climate Smart” and achieving these goals, namely goals associated with the CSC Program’s Pledge Element 7: Increasing Local Climate Resilience. For more information, visit the NYS Climate Smart Communities Program website! https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/our-mission daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1584041367036-GAIJ4LLORIYYXIYY22NH/Resilience+Project+Area+Map.jpg Our Mission - Our Outreach & Education Mission The Climate Resilience Partnership is a combination of research, demonstration, and educational outreach projects to address the challenges of flooding, stream and watershed management, and climate change. As part of this project, Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), in partnership with the NYS Water Resources Institute at Cornell University and with support from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program, are conducting an educational initiative with a focus on flood resiliency and climate change. This effort provides communities with tools to enhance their understanding of stream dynamics, floodplain function and watershed planning to reduce their vulnerability to floods in an era of increasing heavy precipitation events. The project evaluates the capacity of communities to respond to floods in a manner that reduces future flooding impacts and ensures the long-term viability of stream systems. Outreach efforts include presentations and trainings for municipalities, resources to assist in planning to reduce vulnerability to flooding, education for streamside landowners, and fact sheets regarding jurisdiction in streams and what agencies to contact during and after flood events. This project includes a collaboration with the Lower Hudson Coalition of Conservation Districts to deliver post-flood stream intervention trainings to highway personnel and contractors. https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/resources daily 0.75 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/66e94c4c-ba8d-4bb2-9574-792b549c8f51/Rte+28+View+west+to+Boiceville_Irene_2011_AWSMP.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590687575295-DK0BNGI6HVA2MEHM5FQ7/image-asset.jpeg Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590687680669-77YYKX08WN63DQOXOR6E/image-asset.jpeg Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590687431533-4PD4RFVYJSNZCB3WZYQ4/image-asset.jpeg Resources https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/our-team daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/resources-other-organzations daily 0.75 2021-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1629381135059-7FU16KW6C670NKXGEHK4/2021-08-19+09_51_27-Inbox+-+smc427%40cornell.edu+-+Outlook.png Resources from Other Organizations https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/resources-for-residents-landowners daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/resources-local-governments daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/current-projects daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590753670160-BRAK6YA110NJOXEDSJSP/image-asset.jpeg Current Projects - Climate Smart Resilience Planning Tools A component of submission to and certification in the Climate Smart Communities Program, the Partnership develops Climate Smart Resilience Planning Tools for communities aimed at helping them to identify deficiencies & gaps in local plans, develop specific recommendations for the community to address them, and ultimately provide a summary report that the community can carry forward. The development of these tools requires a close partnership and active engagement with the municipality and involves a review of all of the municipality's identified plans, codes and ordinances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590753622691-7O2CXSYJRS974UH52M5I/image-asset.jpeg Current Projects - Climate Smart Community Certification Assessment One of the major goals of this partnership is encouraging local communities go become active in the NYS Climate Smart Communities Program. By becoming a certified Climate Smart Community, a municipality opens itself up to increased levels of funding and takes a giant step towards furthering its climate resilience. Project partners continue their work assisting Hudson Valley municipalities in completing an assessment of completed CSC certification actions and recommendations for remaining actions the municipality should pursue to achieve CSC certification. Along with this, the Partnership is assisting some communities with the submission of documentation for CSC Certification, using the Climate Smart Communities online portal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1732032804594-64UWJVNQ6H2TSN5X7UYQ/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1766161699962-M5I2HDH7LVL26HX6BEYI/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1766161417608-G7IXU3ZB26UOQL8YFA7F/unsplash-image-Cuujm8Yad7A.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1600101121461-8BVUPO79FRWH86OQ9E3A/Nicole+6a.jpg Current Projects - Climate Resilience Vision One of the first and most important steps in a community’s path towards increased climate resilience is to develop a formalized vision. With this in mind, project partners have been assisting communities with developing a climate vision that fits into regional and statewide resilience goals. During the visioning process, The Climate Resilience Partnership closely collaborates with a municipality to gather input from a diverse array of stakeholders about local vulnerabilities and community assets, and how they envision themselves as a climate resilient community in the future. CCE staff then use the community input to create a brief, inspirational statement and vision document that reflects the community’s aspirations and values with regards to building local resiliency to climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1590754468856-SUDON6P6TRFU8R1D8WSW/culvert1.png Current Projects - Culvert & Bridge Inventories and Management Plans Working closely in tandem with municipalities’ Highway Departments, the Partnership assists Hudson Valley communities with the development of road-stream crossing (bridges & culverts) inventories and management plans. These documents rely heavily on culvert data assessed in the field by staff and partners using the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Consortium (NAACC) protocol and provide the community with a complete inventory of its road-stream crossing assets, including structure quality, aquatic organism passability, and flood resilience. https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/climate-smart-communities-assessment daily 0.75 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1600178892918-DT1C9X3XCCHNDB6OOH07/CSCC-ActionChecklist-4-24-2020_Page_1.jpg Climate Smart Communities Assessment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1600180348118-GMQ2RLEB41O1KOASLJWJ/T.+PK+CSC.png Climate Smart Communities Assessment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1600180086524-90Y4OPYPEAKKWIGWS62L/NYS_CSC_Program_Certification_Assessment_Town_Hyde_Park_Final_Timeline_Page_01.jpg Climate Smart Communities Assessment https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/culverts daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1614354711219-MVS3OINB0BTOGVZ1HU1X/image-asset.jpeg Culvert & Bridge Inventories and Management Plans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1614354518138-F3JODBSTRWWSEG2X5Q87/image-asset.jpeg Culvert & Bridge Inventories and Management Plans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1614354615941-EL0AFMZEU0XY8EXSQQJR/image-asset.jpeg Culvert & Bridge Inventories and Management Plans https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/climate-resilience-vision daily 0.75 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1627499110418-5928BEULEPVDGXIJS1UZ/Screenshot+%2878%29.png Climate Resilience Vision - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1627499157546-Z258Y9OM68EUQYR6ZPDD/Nicole+2.jpg Climate Resilience Vision - Make it stand out Gathering community input at a local food market stand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1627499365513-CVZFIIGHOAQAJOK0SJK9/Screenshot+%2879%29.png Climate Resilience Vision - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/flood-disaster-assistance-workshop daily 0.75 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/66e94c4c-ba8d-4bb2-9574-792b549c8f51/Rte+28+View+west+to+Boiceville_Irene_2011_AWSMP.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/0ec1ba40-fc5a-434f-96d4-9e233bfa16b6/registration+page+logos.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/bd19dcc8-0abc-4662-bc4f-93022e31fd1b/Sample+Damage+Assessment+Spreadsheet+.jpg Flood Disaster Assistance Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e275012ad514b190f0f13bb/1ea7ee57-50db-419a-ac44-3f4cba4e6f01/State+Resources+for+BSE+CEDAR_DART_Page_1.jpg Flood Disaster Assistance Workshop https://www.climateresiliencepartnership.org/donate daily 0.75 2025-05-12