More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers
Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a "chief resilience officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’s namesake cohort — most of which have survived local political transitions.
Given that the effort is four years old, we’ll soon see whether that comes to pass. But the fact is there is more focus than ever on the role of cities in addressing issues of resilience exacerbated by climate change. The meeting last week was the first since the Trump administration’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on mitigating global warming. That move has galvanized hundreds of cities — of all sizes — to pledge action...