Climate Resilience Project

What is Climate Resilience?

As we begin to experience increasingly significant effects of a warming planet—from obvious impacts like wildfire smoke and extreme heat, to less effects such as increased migration, shifts in precipitation patterns, and warming of rivers and streams—the concept of resilience becomes increasingly important. Climate resilience is the "the capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance, responding or reorganising in ways that maintain their essential function, identity and structure as well as biodiversity in case of ecosystems while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning and transformation."1

The Climate Resilience Project seeks to help our community build and sustain climate resilience.

Riverfront Park

Community Change Grant

Learn more about the EPA-funded grant project helping transform disadvantaged Spokane communities into healthy, climate resilient, and thriving communities.

Spokane Beat the Heat Initiative

Learn more about our Spokane Beat the Heat Initiative.

A man wearing glasses and a protective mask stands against a backdrop of dense, yellowish haze.

Smoke Ready Spokane

The ”Smoke Ready Spokane” initiative works to mitigate the impact of wildfire smoke on Spokane’s community.