Sentence examples for climate change preparedness from inspiring English sources

Twelve states have yet to formally address climate change preparedness, and 17 have very limited programs to combat potential climate change.

WASHINGTON -- The White House is set to unveil a new Climate Data Initiative on Wednesday to make government-held data more available to researchers and businesses, and improve climate change preparedness across the country.

Climate change preparedness strategies need to be incorporated into public health programs.

We hope that this method will be used in future studies and serve as a platform to expose existing idiosyncrasies and make climate change preparedness and response a unique challenge for each and every community.

Making more of this type of information publicly available, the Obama administration announced, will "stimulate innovation and private-sector entrepreneurship in support of national climate-change preparedness".

Trexia, with children and youth between the ages of 11 to 16, attended the HUTABO Youth Camp, a five-day camp aimed to raise awareness for children like Trexia on climate change, disaster preparedness and how to care for the environment.

Ms. Lopez said last summer's evacuations were more successful in public housing buildings where tenants had received training a few months earlier on climate change and emergency preparedness.

In so doing, she reinforced the growing sense in political circles that the hurricane has upended the city's public conversation and once-little-discussed issues like climate change and disaster preparedness have become central to the mayor's race.

The most common areas of current or future programmatic activity related to climate change were emergency preparedness (71%), storms and floods (56%), vector-borne infectious diseases (53%), and water- and food-borne diseases (50%).

So a growing number of public health experts are recognizing the need to integrate information about climate change into their disaster preparedness and response mechanisms.

Thus, there is a critical need to understand the current knowledge and perceptions of local public health officials regarding public health impacts of climate change and assess current preparedness for these impacts in the U.S. For this reason, we conducted a nationally representative survey of local health department directors.