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Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to climate. Improving climate resilience involves assessing how climate change will create new, or alter current, climate-related risks, and taking steps to better cope with these risks. Climate is not the only significant change impacting the city of Atlanta, and climate change must be tackled from a systemic lens. Cities around the world must take proactive action resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
Resilient Atlanta includes a comprehensive and actionable set of Visions, Targets, and Actions that address the region’s most pressing stresses and seeks to build capacity among residents and city systems alike to better withstand future shocks.
The Strategy is organized into four leading "Visions" that reflect residents’ and stakeholders’ aspirations for Atlanta’s future:
Vision 1: Preserve and Celebrate Who We Are
Preserve and enhance Metro Atlanta’s culture, shared identity, and history to build social cohesion and cultivate the creative economy. The Targets and Actions under this Vision aim to increase community cohesion, address racial inequity, and strengthen Atlanta’s culture and creative economy.
Target 1.1: Become a national leader by 2022 in addressing structural racism, reconciling historic racism, and promoting racial equity.
Target 1.2: Document and share the stories of Atlanta’s 242 neighborhoods and Metro Atlanta’s 29 counties.
Target 1.3: Build Atlanta’s arts and culture sector to become one of the city’s fastest-growing industries by 2025
Vision 2: Enable All Metro-Atlantans to Prosper.
Reduce the barriers preventing Atlantans from achieving economic stability and security to increase access to opportunity and move Atlanta out of the nation’s top 10 cities ranked for income inequality. Under this Vision, the Target and actions support improving economic mobility and inter-generational wealth-building by focusing on early childhood education and workforce development opportunities for all.
Target 2.1: Prepare 100 percent of Metro Atlanta’s children for kindergarten
Target 2.2: Connect 10,000 Metro Atlantans to at least 10,000 new livable wage jobs by 2020
Target 2.3: Ensure career choice in Metro Atlanta
Vision 3: Build Our Future City Today
Facilitate the development of an equitable and inclusive city while preserving and expanding Atlanta’s natural environment. The Targets and Actions under this Vision foster vibrant, healthy, and equitable neighborhoods that will improve the quality of life for all Atlantans. They focus on expanding affordable housing, diversification of transportation modes, increased access to fresh food, improved proximity to green space for recreational use, and investments in sustainable and resilient infrastructure improvements.
Target 3.1: Improve quality, access, and distribution of affordable housing in Metro Atlanta.
Target 3.2: Improve access to transportation across Metro Atlanta
Target 3.3: Ensure every Atlantan lives within one-half mile of fresh food by 2025
Target 3.4: Create 500 new acres of publicly accessible greenspace by 2022
Target 3.5: Install sustainable energy- and water-efficient infrastructure improvements in public spaces as well as around 500 homes and businesses each year
Vision 4: Design Our Systems to Reflect Our Values
Adapt Atlanta’s civic systems to enable the City to become a leader in equity, sustainability, and resilience. The Targets and Actions under this Vision seek to improve the efficiency and usability of city systems to encourage greater civic engagement and institutionalize the use of the resilience lens among decision-makers across Atlanta.
Target 4.1: Adapt and expand City systems to promote resilience planning by 2022
Target 4.2: Support policies and systems to increase civic participation from Metro Atlantans
Target 4.3: Achieve 100 percent use of clean energy citywide by 2035
Target 4.4: Improve public safety and community preparedness by strengthening community cohesion and program evaluation
Target 4.5: Promote Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport into a national model for resilience, sustainability, and workforce development by 2025118. Partner Feature: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Initiatives
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