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New Jersey Climate Change Alliance

The New Jersey Climate Change Alliance (NJCAA) is a collective of organizations and individuals that share the goal of advancing science-informed climate change strategies and policy at the state and local levels in New Jersey.

The Alliance works towards this goal through:

Leading collaborative demonstration projects;
Assessing and presenting evidence-based state and local policy options;
Conducting outreach and education to decision-makers, practitioners and the general public;
Linking scientists to policy-makers and practitioners to inform policy and practice; and
Developing tools and guidance that can be used by planners and decision-makers in the public, private and non-governmental sectors.

To better reflect the breadth of its work, in December 2018, the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance changed its name to The New Jersey Climate Change Alliance (NJCCA.) The Alliance’s website is undergoing revision and some aspects may not reflect this name change.

The Alliance is facilitated by Rutgers University through the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
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Featured Videos

Climate Change and Public Health Implications for New Jersey

This video, produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (which is facilitated by Rutgers University), describes how climate change is currently and will continue to affect public health in New Jersey.

To learn about climate change and implications for agriculture and aquaculture in NJ, the following videos are linked here including:
Climate Change and Agriculture in the Garden State; Fisheries, Aquaculture and Climate Change: A New Jersey Perspective; Rutgers University Plant Breeders Address Climate Change; Living Shorelines and Sea Level Rise on New Jersey’s Delaware Bayshore; Developing Climate-Change Resilience in Conservation Plants.

NJ Populations Vulnerable to Climate Change

This video, produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, describes demographic and geographic attributes of socially vulnerable populations in New Jersey and their relation to flooding as an environmental hazard associated with a changing climate. The video is informed by research conducted by researchers at Rutgers University, which facilitates the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance.

Climate Change and the Jersey Shore: Impacts on Coastal Communities, Ecosystems and Economies

This video, produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance which is facilitated by Rutgers University, explores climate change and its effects on the Jersey Shore. Experts discuss temperature changes, sea level rise, coastal flooding, and ocean acidification and how this impacts communities, ecosystems and coastal economies.

New Jersey's Changing Shoreline

This video, produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (which is facilitated by Rutgers University), describes the dynamics of New Jersey's Atlantic Coast shoreline since the 19th Century, using both historical maps as well as satellite image animation from 1984 - 2012 along NJ's entire Atlantic coast. Viewers can observe periods of erosion, beach narrowing and beach widening as these change over time.

Climate Change and Flood Risk for New Jersey's Senior Citizens

This video, produced by the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance (which is facilitated by Rutgers University) describes the risks faced by NJ's elderly population with a focus on flooding and storm surge hazards associated with a changing climate.

New Jersey and Climate Change: Impacts and Responses

Produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, this video provides a comprehensive overview about impacts of a changing climate to people, places and valuable assets throughout the Garden State.

Learn about climate change and agriculture in New Jersey here.

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What's New?

The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance has been awarded the 2018 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for Environmental Education.

Pictured from Left to Right: Michael Catania and Kathleen Ellis (Alliance Co-chairs), Tammy Snyder Murphy (First Lady of New Jersey), Marjorie Kaplan (Associate Director, Rutgers Climate Institute and Alliance Co-facilitator), Jeanne Herb (Executive Director, Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy and Alliance Co-Facilitator), Catherine McCabe (NJDEP Commissioner); and David Zimmer (Executive Director, NJ Infrastructure Bank)

2019 Introductory Fisheries Science for Stakeholders (IFISSH) course offered through Rutgers Cooperative Extension: In person or remote access. Register by January 22, 2019. Complete details here.

Applied Scientist I to support conservation and adaptive management at The Nature Conservancy Maryland/DC Chapter. Search for position number 47112. Application deadline January 6, 2019.

Three Schools and One School District Honored for Significant Sustainability Achievements in New Jersey
Each year, Sustainable Jersey for Schools presents awards to the sustainability champions at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Award winners are selected from the schools that are certified in the designated award year. The 2018 Recipients are Three Bridges Elementary School, Readington Township Public School District in Hunterdon County, Long Branch Middle School, Long Branch School District in Monmouth County, and Jackson Liberty High School, Jackson School District in Ocean County.

Registration now open for the New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum 2019 which will take place on March 8, 2019 in New Brunswick, NJ. The forum will bring together leaders in government and the private sector working to create sustainable redevelopment solutions in New Jersey.

NJCAA releases three new reports:
- Preparing New Jersey Organizations for Future Extreme Weather Events: A survey of members of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NJVOAD)
- Integration of Climate Change Provisions in State Authority Governing Municipal Planning: Experiences outside New Jersey
- At What Cost? Incorporating the Social Cost of Carbon into State-Level Policies in New Jersey.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, honored with the 2018 Coastal and Ocean Champions Award from the Urban Coast Institute and recognized by a joint resolution of the New Jersey legislature praising its meritorious efforts. New Jersey Governors Thomas Kean and James Florio, Honorary Co-Chairs of the Alliance accepted the award on behalf of the Alliance. Also honored as Coastal and Ocean Champions of 2018 were Alliance Advisory Committee Members Mark Mauriello of Edgewood Properties and David Kinsey of Kinsey & Hand Planning.

Top Row Left to Right: Governor James J. Florio and Governor Thomas Kean, Honorary Co-chairs of the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance. Bottom Row Left to Right: Kathleen Ellis, Co-Chair, NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance with Alliance member Russ Furnari, PSEG and Alliance Co-facilitators Marjorie Kaplan and Jeanne Herb.

Become a Rutgers Environmental Steward. Participants receive classroom and hands-on training from local and university experts on climate change, soil health, geology, water resource protection, environmental policy, alternative energy, and habitat conservation, as well as additional topics that vary by county. The program will be offered in Atlantic, Essex, Middlesex, and Somerset counties in 2019.

Funding available from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant to projects focused on improving water quality, watersheds and the species and habitats they support. Full proposal deadline January 31, 2019.

USDA Forest Service Wildfire Risk Reduction/Wildfire Response Grant to manage wildfire risk. Application deadline December 21, 2018.

USDA Solid Waste Management Grant to reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas, and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas. Application deadline December 31, 2018.

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is now accepting proposals for the 2019 Case Study and Curriculum Innovation Awards. The program encourages proposals of novel curricula and teaching cases that align with one or more of the Lincoln Institute’s four key issues including Climate Change. Proposal deadline for Case Study Awards is December 21, 2018 and deadline for Curriculum Innovations Awards is February 11, 2019.

NJ DEP Conserve Wildlife Matching Grants are now available to nonprofit organizations. Eligible projects will benefit New Jersey's endangered, threatened and nongame wildlife through education, outreach, research, species protection or habitat management. Application deadline December 14, 2018.

Funding available from FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation program for State, Local and Tribal Governments to implement and sustain cost-effective measures designed to reduce the risk to individuals and property from natural hazards, while also reducing reliance on Federal funding from future disasters. Application closing date January 31, 2019.

Funding available from FEMA for State, Local and Tribal Governments to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA FY 2018 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants to state, local and tribal governments to implement and sustain cost-effective measures designed to reduce the risk to individuals and property from natural hazards, while also reducing reliance on Federal funding from future disasters. Application deadline January 31, 2019.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security – FEMA, FEMA FY 2018 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Program makes available Federal funds to State, Local and Tribal Governments to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Application deadline January 31, 2019.

Video releases!

NJCAA releases video: We can improve the well-being of vulnerable communities in New Jersey

NJCAA releases video: Municipalities are the front lines of climate change.

NJCAA releases video: NJ can make a difference

NJCAA releases video Climate change is a problem we can solve.

NJCAA releases video Economic development and environmental protection can happen hand in hand.

NJCAA releases video Addressing climate change is a monumental opportunity.

NJCAA releases video There are benefits to addressing climate change beyond reducing greenhouse gases.

NJCAA releases infographic to explain NJ's climate change impacts, greenhouse gas emissions sources, status on emissions reductions, progress to meeting state goals, and policy options available to New Jersey
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Learn about climate change and agriculture in New Jersey here.

NJCAA’s Climate Change and Public Health Working Group releases New Jersey Climate and Health Profile Report. Read the December 2017 final report here.

Rutgers University scientists assist partners from US Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to build living shorelines along the Delaware Bayshore to reduce the impacts of future storms.

Congratulations to the NJCAA Co-facilitators Jeanne Herb, Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Marjorie Kaplan, Rutgers Climate Institute on receiving the 2017 Public Health Advocates of the Year Award by the New Jersey Local Boards of Health Association, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to public health in New Jersey through the work of the Alliance.

Congratulations to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJCAA) which has been honored with a 2017 Planning Excellence Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association. The NJCAA won the James W. Hughes Applied Research Award for its Science andTechnical Advisory Panel (STAP) to develop consensus science projections regarding sea level rise, coastal storms and coastal flood hazards in New Jersey to support local planning and decision-making. The STAP and a companion report are being used by planners in several contexts in New Jersey.

Using Geographic Tools to identify industrial and commercial facilities for which pollution prevention efforts may reduce exposure to hazards associated with climate-related flooding. Find the report pdf here (905 KB) . Find the related New Jersey Pollution Prevention Story Map: Industrial Facilities and Flood Hazards here.

The Regional Plan Association recently released a study, citing the work of the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, Under Water: How Sea Level Rise Threatens the Tri- State Region, which details the severe threats posed to parts of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut metropolitan areas as a result of permanent sea level rise.

Read the October 2016 reports related to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel on Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: Assessing New Jersey’s Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: Report of the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel; Assessing New Jersey’s Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: A Companion Report to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel Report; Integrating Science into Coastal Resilience Planning and Decision Making available here.

Read the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance's new two-volume report on anticipated climate change implications for water supply and possible management scenarios to address challenges in New Jersey.

pdf Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Supply Sector. (415 KB)

pdf Basis and Background here. (1.66 MB)

Read an NJ Spotlight editorial related to these reports by former New Jersey Governors Tom Kean and Jim Florio here.

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