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The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank and the Environmental Management Department have selected the consultant ARUP to carry out a study across the state of its 400 -kilometer coast to examine the impacts and risks of climate change.
The study, the first state effort of this type, will inform the necessary mitigation and coastal resilience measures, the scope of projects and the steps to obtain funding for related infrastructure projects. The estimated analysis of $ 750,000 will examine the increase in sea level and the most frequent and humid storm impacts, increasing the temperatures of water and air and changes in biodiversity.
“This study is more critical than ever, as we aim to understand and implement infrastructure solutions necessary to strengthen our coastal resilience,” said Terry Gray, director of the Rhode Island Environmental Agency. “Although important investments have already been made, there is still important work.”
Arup, chosen in a competitive tender process, has appointed the firm firming firm, the Civic and Economic Design signing Development Camoin Associates as subcontractors.
The initiative increases the work of the Rhode Island Municipal Resilience Program, in which local representatives participate in workshops that help them identify climate risks and to qualify them to request the funding for subsidies of the project to deal with these risks. To date, more than $ 24 million have been awarded. “This investment is not only essential to protecting communities across the state, but also places Rhode Island as a national leader in climate resilience,” said Kim Korioth, responsible for Rhode Island’s resilience.
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The amount of global climate financing from 2023, at the rate that will be available to 2028 of estimated $ 6 trillion for the United Nations 2030 Climate Action Plans.
Source: Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2025 Report, Climate Policy initiative
By 2024, the state legislature passed a law that forced the creation of a plan to examine short, medium -term climate risks, from 2035 to 2100, and to recommend mitigation and resilience steps, as well as methodologies for investments to harden the infrastructure. The plan now accepts public contributions in a series of community forums, with the following that will take place on July 17 in East Providence, Ri
