Interagency Resilience Team

Climate change impacts are cross-cutting, affecting North Carolinians’ homes, ecosystems, health and livelihoods. To help state agencies address these impacts in a coordinated manner, NCORR brings together the Interagency Resilience Team.

The Interagency Resilience Team meets monthly to share updates on new projects, discuss successes and challenges of existing programs, announce new funding opportunities, stay informed on the latest climate science, learn ways to design equitable climate change efforts and identify interagency issues. This coordination has improved interagency communication and supported several interagency initiatives, including updating the state’s construction requirements for flood-prone state land, as required by Executive Order 266.

The team includes resilience leads from each state cabinet agency, as well as from the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, NC Office of Management and Budget, Office of State Human Resources and NC Wildlife Resources Commission.

NCORR first convened the Interagency Resilience Team in September 2020, following a directive in Chapter 7 of the 2020 Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan (Page 7-14):

The [Chief Resilience Officer] will convene an Interagency Resilience Team, which will include at least one resilience lead from each agency. These leads should be staff experts from each agency who have the authority, capacity and expertise to collaborate on resilience work among agencies. This team will provide a coordinating structure for tackling interagency resilience issues. It also will support the development and release of updates to the North Carolina Resilience Plan in collaboration with the Climate Change Interagency Council. Ideally, this team will include representation from all state agencies, not only cabinet agencies.