Downloadable Capabilities Statement
About CRC
Climate Resilience Consulting is a certified WBE women owned small business and social enterprise that aims to create a more equitable world with more lives saved and livelihoods enhanced in the face of climate disruption. Our mission is to enable communities, governments, and corporations to avoid, prepare for, and resist the global and local impacts of climate change.
The UN has identified four components of adaptation for resilience: assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring. We work with our clients to obtain success in each component, enhancing communities and markets through adaptation. We excel at creating resilience strategies, increasing resilience finance, and building resilience tools for our public, private, and nonprofit clients.
Core Competencies
Institution Resilience Strategy
Local & National Resilience Policy
Resilience Finance and Funding
Social Equity & Collateral Benefits
Risk Reduction & Continuity Planning
Community Engagement & Partnerships
Resilience Measurement
Our Approach
Connecting community knowledge to project success - Our projects bridge between science and real-world decision-making, producing solutions that are practical and actionable.
Crafting consensus for action - Our projects start with community assets and concerns and get internal and external buy-in, implementing initiatives with limited resources.
Accomplishing short and long term aims - Our projects focus on now and later, deriving immediate benefits while mitigating future risks.
We have 30 years’ experience leading resilience efforts across the Globe.
Client examples:
Engage Stakeholders to Build Resilience-Focused Institutions
Environmental Protection Agency Disaster Resilient Communities BPA prime contract
Enterprise Community Partners HUD CDBG-MIT Clinic; Equitable Climate Resilience strategy
The Kresge Foundation multi-year Assessment of the US Climate Adaptation Field
100 Resilient Cities Infrastructure Federal Policy Platform
Sustainable Cities Network Multi-city and region drought, heat, wildfire green infrastructure strategy
Urban Sustainability Directors Network Resilience finance training; equitable cost benefit analysis
Increase Resilience Finance
American Society of Adaptation Professionals: Resilience funding toolkit, guidebook and training
Environmental Defense Fund Coastal Master Plan green infrastructure funding and finance
Innovation Network for Communities state and local government resilience playbooks
Natural Resources Defense Council North Carolina local government resilience assessment
Rockefeller Foundation Convening credit rating experts to inspire finance sector resilience
Willis Towers Watson Climate Resilience Hub and public risk finance
Improve Resilience Measurement
Global Adaptation Initiative Urban Adaptation Assessment
IBTS Nationwide Equitable Climate Resilience Assessment; Multi-Family Affordable Housing Resilience
US Climate Alliance resilience measurement tools and governors’ resilience playbook
UNDRR Building Disaster Resilience Scorecard
Winrock International Agricultural Resilience Investment Screen
