Justine Calma

It’s releasing the framework today during a summit the White House is hosting on climate resilience. The framework focuses on getting communities, federal agencies, and infrastructure ready for any shocks that come with climate change. FEMA is issuing a new set of Federal best practices for building construction, for example.

The Biden administration also announced the availability of $500 million in funding “to help build a climate resilient nation” from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Joe Biden and heads of state for many of the top polluting countries — China, India, and Russia, and the UK — were missing at the UN Climate Ambition Summit, where the ticket to participate was a more ambition climate plan. “The rich countries that have historically driven the climate crisis and are continuing to expand fossil fuels were given an opportunity ... to demonstrate their commitment to the 1.5°C global warming limit. Instead, we saw cowardice and a staggering failure of climate leadership,” Romain Ioualalen of Oil Change International said in a statement.