Extreme Heat

  • Kashmere Gardens Resilience Hub

    Kashmere Gardens Resilience Hub

    Co-designing and activating Houston’s first Resilience Hub in partnership with local government and community leaders.

  • Pittsburgh Urban Tree Canopy Initiative

    Pittsburgh Urban Tree Canopy Initiative

    Between 2023 and 2025, Resilient Cities Catalyst partnered with the City of Pittsburgh on a project funded by Google.org via ICLEI USA’s Climate Action Fund to develop a data-driven, replicable approach for urban forest management that maximizes climate resilience benefits.

  • Resilient Austin Playbook

    Resilient Austin Playbook

    The City of Austin has released the Resilient Austin Playbook (PDF, 6 MB), a strategic roadmap to help the community prepare for, respond to, and recover from the challenges facing one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities.

  • Resilient Austin Playbook

    Resilient Austin Playbook

    Helping move the City from vision to implementation on priority economic and climate resilience initiatives.

  • Tampa Neighborhood Heat Resilience

    Tampa Neighborhood Heat Resilience

    Resilient Cities Catalyst has partnered with the City of Tampa since 2020. Our work in Tampa spans across scales, from shaping the citywide resilience agenda through the Resilient Tampa Roadmap (2021) and Heat Resilience Playbook (2024) to focusing in on the resilience of heavily trafficked…

  • Chatham County Resilience Roadmap

    Chatham County Resilience Roadmap

    Resilient Cities Catalyst partnered with Chatham County and Georgia Conservancy through the Climate Smart Communities Initiative to co-develop an ambitious, forward-looking agenda that lays the foundation for a stronger, more resilient future for the County. By articulating a clear vision for the County’s climate resilience…

  • Climate Ready Infrastructure Service

    Climate Ready Infrastructure Service

    A partnership with the Canadian Urban Institute that connects Canadian municipal and Indigenous governments with the technical expertise they need to design low-carbon and climate resilient infrastructure projects. Since December 2024, the 130+ CRIS Roster firms have prepared project-level climate assessments and pre-feasibility designs for more than 300 infrastructure projects.

  • Goleta Slough Resilience Project Acceleration

    Goleta Slough Resilience Project Acceleration

    Advancing community-supported projects that protect the Goleta Slough ecosystem, infrastructure and surrounding communities.

  • Mediterranean Climate Action Partnership (MCAP)

    Mediterranean Climate Action Partnership (MCAP)

    Connecting regions across five continents to accelerate climate adaptation and resilience to drought, wildfire, and extreme heat.