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One interesting point about Biden’s climate team: so far it lacks anybody with a strong background in adaptation policy, despite the rising toll of disasters. (1/x) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/biden-cabinet-mccarthy-granholm-buttigieg.html?referringSource=articleShare
Buttigieg maybe comes closest — his campaign put out a detailed plan on how to improve disaster preparedness. (2/x) https://medium.com/the-moment-by-pete-for-america/resilient-communities-a-new-disaster-preparedness-approach-89fd78a689e2
Buttigieg was one of the (many) mayors across the country who pushed EPA to let his city release more raw sewage than earlier consent decrees mandated, as worsening floods made those targets harder to meet. So he knows the challenges. (3/x) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/climate/epa-sewage-rivers.amp.html
There’s a deep bench of adaptation expertise from Obama’s second term and at the state level. So one thing to watch is whether Biden recruits any of those people for senior roles — or whether adaptation remains mostly an afterthought. (4/4)
