The money will help to set up markets, reopen schools and hospitals, as well as securing water supplies.
Many are built on hilltops, securing water supplies, often linked by their own networks of roads and overlooking villages in the valleys beneath.
Elevating homes in floodplains, securing steep slopes in watersheds, providing buffers from wildfires in fringe zones, securing water supplies in drought-prone areas, and improving livelihoods in impoverished communities can all reduce the risk of disaster conditions resulting from extreme events while helping communities adapt to long-term climate change impacts.
Forest ecosystems are fundamental in securing water supplies, providing economic goods, mitigating climate change, and maintaining biodiversity thus providing many of the world's poorest with income, food and medicine.
As well as securing water supplies and cleaning our air, natural systems have been stabilizing the climate for millions of years.
California, New York and Maryland are among those that have made the greatest progress toward the dozens of goals their plans set forth, such as cutting statewide greenhouse gas emissions, improving infrastructure, securing water supplies, battling wildfires or coping with rising sea levels.
Over many decades, the country has been tempted by grandiose, supply-oriented engineering solutions such as dam construction and water transfer tunnels to secure water supply.
Therefore, serious and sustained investment in water wells and pumps will help provide a reliable and secure water supply to a significant number of those without safe drinking water.
Rapid development and economic growth further complicate the issue of a secure water supply, particularly in the case of California's senior water rights over those of Nevada and Arizona: in case of a reduction in water supply, Nevada and Arizona would have to endure severe cuts before any reduction in the California allocation, which is also larger than the other two combined.
