'Miami recently declared a climate emergency. It was not a symbolic gesture,' write Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen in usatodayopinion
that every dollar spent on climate-proofing communities can deliver a fourfold return on investment.
We are not underestimating the scale of the challenge: This is a huge endeavor. A national resilience plan must guide how and where we invest, how businesses function, and how cities are designed and built. Everyone — from mayors to taxpayers, insurers to engineers, property developers to urban planners — will need to be engaged. The plan will require unprecedented coordination among all stakeholders, especially federal, state and local governments.
Climate change does not discriminate between red and blue states; it affects us all. That is why Florida Republicans are addressing climate in their programs, and why we urge President Trump to do the same. Millions of American lives are being disrupted by climate change. There is another way. America has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build smartly to adapt to the foreseeable impacts of climate change. These investments will save lives and deliver economic returns. If President Trump were to embrace a national resilience plan, it could become his lasting and most important legacy.
Ban Ki-moon, chair of the Global Commission on Adaptation and Global Center on Adaptation, was the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations. Before becoming secretary-general, he was foreign minister of the Republic of South Korea. Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation, is professor of practice of sustainable development diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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