LCR Tool - Low Carbon Resilience: - A Briefing for Mayors and Elected Officials

This ICABCCI Tool provides an introduction to the concept of LCR and its benefits for local governments over the short and long-term and is specifically tailored for Mayors and elected officials. [...] LCR is a climate action approach that coordinates and mainstreams mitigation and adaptation and advances co-benefits in planning and all decision-making processes. [...] With local and national governments around the world declaring climate change emergencies, and climate change impacts such as flooding and wildfires increasing damage and costs in the billions, climate change is now top of mind for many citizens, and community safety and resilience is the top issue for many local governments. [...] 6 | ACT AN LCR BRIEFING FOR MAYORS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS Adaptation and mitigation planning have the same core goal: to reduce the impacts of climate change and build overall community resilience by reducing and/ or avoiding the impacts of projected climate change and transitioning to low car- bon development. [...] ACCESS LCR RESOURCES TODAY LCR is a practical and coherent approach to planning and policy that will benefit your com- munity both in the present and in years to come.