New Jersey Extreme Heat Resilience Action Plan
Organization: Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey
Year: 2024
This plan is made up of 136 actions, organized thematically into twenty focus areas and further organized to align with the priorities outlined in the foundational policy framework of New Jersey’s Climate Change Resilience Strategy. Action commitments address the activities completed, ongoing, or recommended in individual agencies, as well as efforts that cut across several or all state agencies who make up the Interagency Council on Climate Resilience (Figure 1). Actions included in this plan are designed to address community health, equity and justice, research needs, coordination of government, and funding, financing, and investment needed to implement the action, in accordance with the Resilience Strategy.