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Climate Change Toolbox

This page contains various plans and strategies from around the state, as well as interactive visualization and modeling tools, to assist planners with addressing climate change in their communities.

Plans and Strategies

Broward County Climate Action Plan. Broward County's Climate Change Action Plan discusses strategies and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve resiliency, and adapt to the impacts of climate change.


Cool Planning: A Handbook on Local Strategies to Slow Climate Change. This guide aims to assist communities in reducing their carbon footprint by presenting planning strategies and examples.


Dade County Climate Change Action Plan. 


Florida’s Energy & Climate Change Action Plan (2008). Plan created by the Governor's Action Team on Energy and Climate Change.


Incorporating Sea Level Change at the Local Level. This report by NOAA offers a brief, step by step guide on the process of addressing sea level change in your community.


Orange County, FL, Climate Change Plan. Orange County's Climate Change Plan seeks to establish and implement a County Renewable Energy Initiative by adopting various policies and objectives outlined in the plan.


Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan

Visualization and Modeling Tools

FloodIQ Tool. Developed by First Street Foundation, this tool allows users the ability to appraise  property values and loss due to flood risks in various communities, and how best to mitigate environmentally-related flood incidents, sea-level rise and damage.


NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer. NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer is a valuable and easy tool for modeling and visualizing local effects of coastal flooding and sea level rise. The Sea Level Rise Viewer allows users to zoom into local areas and model 0-6’ sea level rise effects.


Surging Seas Risk Finder. Surging Seas is an interactive site with various tools to help with modeling and visualizing sea level rise and coastal flooding. Numerous tools allow users to see maps and visuals showing varying degrees of sea level rise and flooding at the neighborhood scale.