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in climate change, climate action planning,

climate finance and adaptation to share emerging science, technologies, and policies; experiences, qualifications, technical expertise and lessons learned. We share available tools and procedures across geographies to conduct climate change projects and leverage expertise of our global experts to solve client problems.

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AECOM’s CLIMATE ADAPTATION PRACTICE

The climate is changing. The intensity and

frequency of natural disasters has led to

concerns about how prepared the public and

private sectors are for an event. Storms like

Hurricanes Florence and Michael, floods, droughts, and wildfires are subjecting population centers to more risk. Climate change is already

having an impact throughout the Americas and

is expected to continue into the foreseeable

future. Changes in temperature, precipitation

and sea level, however, are not uniform – there is

great variability in what climate change will mean

depending on location. Determining the regional

and local effects of global climate change is critical to assessing vulnerability and risk, which

is necessary information in order to create

implementable strategies. Climate change is a

long-term challenge with immediate needs; how

we define the problem and present the solutions is critical in gaining public and stakeholder buy-

in, political support, and necessary financing. AECOM offers the multi-disciplinary services and experience needed to help adapt to climate

change and enhance resilience to extreme

weather.

CONTACTS

JON PHILIPSBORN

Climate Adaptation Practice Director - Americas

jon.philipsborn@aecom.com

• DISASTER RESILIENCE SCORECARD – a unique tool designed by AECOM and IBM, and adopted by the UNISDR, to support a holistic approach to understanding vulnerability and/or risk, as well as serve as a basis for stakeholder engagement and adaptation/strategic planning.

• FORECASTING LOCAL EXTREMES (FLEX) TOOL – developed to efficiently manage large downscaled climate model datasets, the tool can quickly and efficiently condense these data to a few key statistics that guide the analysis of local climate projections, and support comprehensive local and regional planning initiatives.

• ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE APPLICATION (ACCA) is AECOM’s tool used to identify potential future impacts of climate change on assets and operations and helps to find ways to effectively respond and adapt to these impacts.

REPRESENTATIVE TOOLS AND RESOURCES

THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE

• ALL HAZARD MODELING, MAPPING AND ANALYSIS – examining vulnerability and economic impacts in the context of sea level rise, coastal and riverine flooding, drought, and wildfire.

• BECOMING CLIMATE RESILIENT – guidebook for Executive Businesses.• SILICON VALLEY 2.0 DECISION SUPPORT TOOL – online decision support tool that allows users to

view the vulnerabilities and risks for multiple sectors to multiple climate stressors in Santa Clara County, CA. http://siliconvalleytwopointzero.org/home

• 3D VISUALIZATION – Photorealistic renderings, 3D computer animations, and virtual reality tools for use as design aides and public outreach materials. These tools can help envision the future of climate change impacts, such as sea level rise, with and without recommended changes.

FELIZ VENTURA

Director, Climate Adaptation Funding and Financingfeliz.ventura@aecom.com

CLAIRE BONHAM-CARTERPrincipalclaire.bonham-carter@aecom.com

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECT

LOCATIONS

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TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE, ONE STEP AT A TIME

Identify exposures that exist now and in the future as a result of climate change, and how to mitigate and manage these risks. Vulnerabilities should be determined for the main organization, as well as for dependencies, such as utilities, and supply chains, or can be structured to capture economic impacts to the

broader region.

Vulnerability

Analysis

Climate

Adaptation

Planning

Resilient

Infrastructure

Design/Build

Disaster

Recovery

Low-Carbon

Transition

and Energy

Resilience

For events that cannot be mitigated, options exist to lessen the impact and adapt. AECOM supports planning

for a future that considers and incorporates the potential effects of sea level rise, including catastrophic storm events, warming temperatures, and other changes.

AECOM has experience developing building codes and standards that consider sea level rise and other changing conditions to reduce future vulnerabilities to climate change. We design and implement improvements now to save lives and reduce capital losses, while creating

more resilient communities

to meet current and future challenges.

AECOM supports

organizations and governments dealing with the aftermath of extreme weather events through emergency response contracts with FEMA and other federal, state and local agencies. We offer design and program management of major repairs and reconstruction efforts.

Identifying opportunities to increase energy conservation, as well as identifying targets, roadmaps, and implementation of renewable energy and electric vehicle objectives.

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C40 INFRASTRUCTUREINTERDEPENDENCIES +CLIMATE RISKS REPORT

Spring 2017

Main Roadway

Power Plant

Wetlands

Wastewater Treatment Plant

Senior Center

Rural Area

Public School

Daycare Center

BurnsEstates

Water Treatment

Plant

The Townhomes

Transportation Hub

Police/Fire

Stadium

Bike Path

Hospital

Riverwalk

Park/Trees

Riverine Floodplain

Hottest Moderately Hot

Cooler Current Flood Zone

20% Increased Precipitation Flood Zone

WaterLevelRise

Affected by Both Water Level Riseand Heat Island Effect

12"

24"

36"

Worker Housing

Evacuation Route

To Local University

Dam

Lightrail

Future Wind/Solar Site

Game of 10,000 Feet

CLIMATE RESILIENCE STUDY

MARCH 2019

LOWER MANHATTAN

BECOMING CLIMATE RESILIENT AN EXECUTIVE BUSINESS CASE FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE

SELECT CLIMATE ADAPTATION PROJECTS100 RESILIENT CITIES (100RC). Our global team at AECOM is currently working (or has completed work) as the strategy partner for over 30 of the 100RC cities. For all of these cities, AECOM collaborated with the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) to provide project management and technical leadership in identifying and addressing the resilience challenges and opportunities of each city, with the ultimate product being a City Resilience Strategy. All of the cities have identified climate change as a key threat to their city’s resilience. AECOM has supported the cities of Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, Mexico City, Medellin, Rotterdam, Melbourne, and Christchurch, Dallas, Chicago, Montreal, San Juan, Santiago de los Caballeros, Quito, Cali, Colima, Bangkok, Jakarta, Wellington, Sydney, Paris, Kyoto and Ramallah, Seattle, Honolulu, Vancouver, Greater Miami and the Beaches, Calgary, Lisbon, and The Hague. C40 INFRASTRUCTURE INTERDEPENDENCIES CLIMATE RISKS REPORT. AECOM developed detailed case studies for five cities (Toronto, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Johannesburg, and Bogota) and documented their approaches in understanding and communicating climate impacts to their interconnected infrastructure. Approaches ranged from initial engagement or relationship-building with infrastructure owners through traditional educational seminars, to conducting interactive workshops in which participants from different sectors have mapped interconnections through discussion and drawings.STATE-WIDE HAZARD MITIGATION AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLAN, STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Fulfilled the requirements of Executive Order 569 by developing a climate adaptation plan that outlines a statewide strategy to address climate change impacts through adaptation and resiliency measures and policies.SEA LEVEL RISE RESPONSE PLAN, CITY OF OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON. AECOM supported the City of Olympia in the development of their SLR Response Plan to address existing and future flooding issues in the downtown area, including at the Port of Olympia and Budd Inlet wastewater treatment plant. The

Plan analyzed options for protecting downtown and developed recommendations, implementation schedules, decision-making thresholds, funding needs, and emergency response approaches to address SLR vulnerabilities and risks in the future. http://olympiawa.gov/~/media/Files/PublicWorks/Water-Resources/SLR/SLR-Plan/SLR-Plan-Complete.pdf?la=en

USDN CLIMATE PREPAREDNESS TRAINING GAMES, NATIONAL. AECOM assisted the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) in developing climate change preparedness training toolkits to help local governments educate staff about climate adaptation with a focus on sea level rise and extreme heat. Using gameplay trainings focus on mainstreaming climate risk consideration into core city processes, e.g., planning, budgeting and operations, and on engaging with all relevant stakeholders, including community representatives, on advancing climate adaptation goals. https://www.usdn.org/public/page/18/Climate-Change-Resilience#AdaptationGames (Climate Adaptation Training Tool 3.0)

DANIA BEACH: ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SEA LEVEL RISE AND COASTAL STORMS. To understand the economic effects of sea level rise and coastal storms on Dania Beach’s business community and the broader region, AECOM performed a robust analysis to identify the costs from failing to take action and the potential benefits of investing in adaptation. AECOM evaluated future storm flooding and sea level rise scenarios to estimate the damages of a no action scenario. Distinct types of economic impacts of flooding were evaluated, including direct property impacts, displacement impacts, business and employment impacts, and fiscal impacts. HURRICANE SANDY FOLLOW-UP AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND ADAPTATION ANALYSIS. As part of a FHWA intiative initiative to enhance the tri-state region’s resiliency to climate change and extreme weather in the longer-term, while informing the ongoing Hurricane Sandy recovery process AECOM developed a 4 step climate adaptation engineering assessment process. AECOM completed 10 infrastructure engineering-

based assessments that included an evaluation of direct physical impacts (including flooding and extreme heat) on assets, as well as broader economic, social, and environmental costs of service disruption. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sustainability/resilience/ongoing_and_current_research/hurricane_sandy/index.cfm

PAYING FOR ADAPTATION IN CALIFORNIA: A PRIMER FOR PRACTITIONERS. The Resources Legacy Fund engaged AECOM to evaluate current and future options for funding and financing climate adaptation and resilience projects and programs in California, including options analysis, development of illustrative case studies for funding and financing, and interviews with national experts. AECOM evaluated approaches and challenges to funding and financing climate adaptation and resilience projects for flood control, water supply, wastewater, heat and air pollution, and capacity building. https://www.aecom.com/paying-climate-adaptation-california-primer-practitioners/

MTC, CALTRANS REGIONAL PLANNING GRANT: A RESILIENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA. AECOM is supporting MTC and BCDC on the development of a Bay Area wide regional vulnerability and risk assessment framework leveraging region wide datasets, and a detailed vulnerability assessment being led by BCDC. The framework will help the region prioritize areas most in need of adaptation in the near and medium term, considering transportation assets, vulnerable communities, natural areas and priority development areas. WATER RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT, CONFIDENTIAL UTILITY CLIENT, MIDWEST. AECOM developed a water resilience assessment for a confidential energy utility company. AECOM assessed the current and potential future availability of water resources across the client’s service and major supply chain areas under a variety of potential climate change scenarios. The final report focused on how changes in temperature and precipitation as a result of climate change may influence water resources and water availability.

CLIMATE RESILIENCE STUDY, MANHATTAN, NEW YORK. AECOM with team members developed a long-term resilience strategy for Lower Manhattan and lays the path forward for the next phase of climate resilience. The study evaluated dozens of adaptation measures and identified a set of strategies to build resilience in Lower Manhattan. The team performed a climate risk assessment, developed a climate adaptation toolkit, developed and evaluated a series of climate resilience strategies as well as the economic benefits provided and harm avoided via each strategy in the process of developing a preferred alternative and implementation approach. RESILIENCE AND FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA. The City of Miami Beach is a highly urbanized coastal community located in southeast Florida and a major economic resource to the region. With a population of just over 90,000, the City has been one of America’s pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century. Located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands, Miami Beach is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the environmentally sensitive Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve, which is also an Outstanding Florida Water. The relatively low-lying topography has a subtropical climate with high intensity rainfall, significant tidal influence, and limited soil storage which results in significant and frequent tidal flooding.STATE ROUTE 37 INTEGRATED TRAFFIC, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND SEA LEVEL RISE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN ALTERNATIVES ASSESSMENT, METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. AECOM collaborated with UC Davis to conduct a SLR vulnerability and risk assessment for California State Route 37 in north San Francisco Bay. This initial effort developed conceptual strategies to elevate the highway in response to SLR and laid the foundation for the subsequent Design Alternatives Assessment. AECOM is working with MTC, Kimley Horn, SFEI, and the four north Bay counties to further refine the highway redesign to avoid future flooding, integrate the highway with the surrounding landscape, and provide enhanced hydrological and ecological corridors along Petaluma River, Tolay Creek, and Sonoma Creek.

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