This New Tool shows you exactly how at risk your neighborhood is to climate change. Check your risk factor below.
John,
This game-changing tool tells you exactly how at risk your area is to the ills of climate change. Check the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) to find out where your neighborhood ranks and then share with us what you’ve learned. For many of us, the news isn’t good, but we can't be discouraged, this information should motivate us even more to fight to protect and preserve climate funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for your community.
What is your Climate Vulnerability Score? Tell us!
What is the Climate Vulnerability Index? The CVI measures and ranks over 70,000 areas nationwide in terms of their risk to climate change. Users can check the index to see how climate change is affecting, or is likely to affect, their health, economy, property, and more.
Why is this important? Understanding the intertwined impacts of pollution and poverty in different communities is crucial to achieving a sustainable and equitable environment. This tool confirms, with solid data, what many of us already believed to be obvious: that systemic inequities make Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities much more susceptible to the effects of climate change — often because they live in areas more exposed to hazardous waste and air pollution, heightening the risk of chronic diseases. The CVI provides a clear, data-supported argument for our fight to ensure that these communities receive a significant portion of IRA funding and resources.
How can you take advantage of this tool? Currently, funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for our most vulnerable populations is at risk of being repealed by policymakers who are turning a blind eye to the climate adversities of their constituents. We must use CVI as a tool to ensure Congress prioritizes investments aimed at building healthier and more resilient communities. You can help bolster our efforts to protect the IRA by looking up your Climate Vulnerability Score and sending us your top climate risks and impacts.
Share Your Climate Vulnerability Data & Stories
In solidarity,
— Dream.Org
