Fairfax County, Virginia estimates that climate change caused $25 million in damages from 2010 to 2019. A new plan is meant to prevent worse losses in the years and decades to come.
Fairfax County, Virginia recently opened its draft Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, also known as Resilient Fairfax. According to an article by David Taube for FFX Now, the plan is designed to adapt to the effects of climate change.
“The plan proposes short- and long-term solutions that could potentially cost up to $9.5 million. They include launching a climate resilience education program, implementing a flood-risk reduction plan, exploring possible retroactive physical capital improvement projects for communities, and more,” writes Taube.
“In addition to these step-by-step solutions, other goals call for protecting natural resources and restoring urbanized environments. For example, the county notes it could further encourage buildings to add vegetation to roofs and pursue other strategies.”
More details on the Resilient Fairfax plan, and the process leading up to the draft, are included in the source article below.
FULL STORY: Fairfax County releases draft plan to address costly climate change effects
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