WHAT WE DOThe County, City, and Climate Smart Missoula work together with many partners throughout our community to prioritize equitable climate solutions, develop community resources, and pursue funding opportunities towards the goal of building community resilience to climate change.
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EXPLORE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE
CLIMATE READY
MITIGATIONADDRESSING THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGEA vast majority of the greenhouse gas emissions, which cause rapid climate change, are created through our daily lives including how we heat, cool, and power our buildings; the materials we use to build our buildings, roadways, and other infrastructure; the removal of trees and green spaces; driving in gas-powered vehicles; the food we eat; how the items we buy are created; and the disposal of our waste products.
Missoula is addressing the causes of climate change in many ways, click here to learn more. |
ADAPTATIONADDRESSING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGEWe are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, with longer wildfire and wildfire smoke seasons, extreme summer heat, prolonged drought, spring flooding, and greater variability. These climate impacts affect every sector of our community, including the ways in which we grow our food, protect human health, manage ecosystems, build our buildings, produce energy and design our businesses.
Climate Ready Missoula is one of the key drivers of addressing climate change effects throughout Missoula County. |
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE*IN MISSOULA COUNTYWe build resilience by addressing both the causes and effects of climate change.
Addressing the causes enables us to lessen the effects in the future but we are already experiencing those effects today, so Climate Ready Missoula was developed as an adaptation plan. That means we are actively working with partners throughout the County to address the human, ecological, and economic effects of climate change. Climate Ready Missoula enables us to take a comprehensive approach to resilience by building on our existing work to address the causes of climate change by reducing carbon pollution. *Resilience = the ability of a system - whether it's a community, an ecosystem, or an economy - to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the impacts of climate change.
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ABOUT CLIMATE READYClimate Ready Missoula is a collaborative effort to build community resilience to climate change.
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NEWS AND UPDATESKeep up with our latest news, events, and offerings to the community.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCESWe're developing resources every year to make progress on implementing CRM strategies.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Climate Ready Missoula strategies are wide-ranging and impact planning, development, programs, and policies. Our implementation teams and work groups have worked together to prioritize actions since the plan's adoption in 2020 and developed the programs below which provide resources and education to community members and stakeholders alike. These programs represent some of our progress to date and we will continue to implement the many strategies in this plan for years to come.
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EXPLORE THE PLAN
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Climate Ready Missoula identifies 29 goals and 77 strategies that we can pursue to build resilience to climate change in Missoula County. It is the result of 2 years of work and contributions from hundreds of Missoulians. This plan was adopted as an issue plan of the Missoula County Growth Policy and the City's Our Missoula: City Growth Policy 2035.
The plan also contains a community vulnerability assessment, future climate scenarios, and more detailed information on climate impacts. Click below to learn more about each of these documents and how they were developed. |
