Climate Changed
Rockefeller to Wind Down Biggest Private Climate Resilience Push
- Jobs at ‘100 Resilient Cities’ program to end this summer
- Shift will affect New York, Boston, Miami, Seattle, Houston
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The Rockefeller Foundation will end funding and dismiss the staff at its 100 Resilient Cities program, the largest privately funded climate-adaptation initiative in the U.S., the foundation announced Monday.
Rockefeller will shift some of its resilience funding to the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, with a $30 million grant to the council’s Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience, the foundation said in a press release. Rockefeller also announced a $12 million grant “to allow continued support and transition time to the 100 Resilient Cities network through much of 2019.”