State Resilience Planning Group Works to Reduce Climate Impacts

In 2019, The Pew Charitable Trusts formed the State Resilience Planning Group (SRPG), the nation’s premier peer network of chief resilience officers, agency directors, and state resilience officials from coastal and inland states. The SRPG provides a space for members to exchange practices and learnings related to the development and implementation of comprehensive state-level hazard resilience plans.

As increasingly extreme weather events drive states to address current and future severe flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other disasters, communities need access to planning, design, and engineering expertise to help them develop long-term resilience strategies. The group holds quarterly virtual and periodic in-person meetings to discuss the latest advancements and emerging developments in states throughout the U.S.