How Chicago Is Preparing For Climate Change

What the Chicago area can do to become more resilient to climate change.

Climate change is increasingly becoming a public health threat, experts warn. Thousands were displaced and dozens died during Hurricane Ida.
Climate change is increasingly becoming a public health threat, experts warn. Thousands were displaced and dozens died during Hurricane Ida. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Climate change is increasingly becoming a public health threat, experts warn. Thousands were displaced and dozens died during Hurricane Ida.
Climate change is increasingly becoming a public health threat, experts warn. Thousands were displaced and dozens died during Hurricane Ida. Bloomberg via Getty Images

How Chicago Is Preparing For Climate Change

What the Chicago area can do to become more resilient to climate change.

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Hurricane Ida’s flooding caused massive death and destruction in the northeast, leaving communities across the country questioning how prepared they are for extreme weather.

Reset examines how prepared Chicago is for climate change.

GUESTS: Kevin Burns, Mayor of Geneva, Illinois; environment committee chairman of the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus

Angela Tovar, city of Chicago’s Chief Sustainability Officer