Building coastal resilience by engaging partners, fostering leaders, and addressing the challenges from climate change with strategic focus in 6 key areas:
Advancing climate adaptation
Developing nature-based solutions
Enabling market options
Restoring natural resources
Supporting climate justice
Strengthening communications
Strategic investment and relationships to date
$20M
in state and additional support
23
UC Santa Cruz research teams
50+
local, state, and international partnerships
Coastal Climate Research News
Investing in Nature for Sustainability
In Microsoft’s latest white paper, Heather Tallis, a senior fellow at the Center and co-authors discuss the opportunities and challenges of corporate investments in nature and reflect on learnings from Microsoft’s sustainability journey.
UC Santa Cruz faculty, alumnae joining in worldwide biodiversity conference
Center postdoctoral fellow, Rae Taylor-Burns was at the UN Biodiversity Conference to speak on a Center project that quantifies the global flood risk reduction benefits of coral reefs and mangroves.
National Practice Forum on Nature-Based Solutions
The Network for Engineering With Nature in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences Resilient America Roundtable and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience is convening a national forum focused on the practice of nature-based solutions on February 4-5, 2025, at the NAS Beckman Center in Irvine, California. Register Now!