Building Climate Resiliency in the City of Salem

Join Salem’s Mayor Dominick Pangallo and Director of Sustainability and Resiliency Neal Duffy for a conversation about how our city is working to address current and future climate change challenges. Salem’s leadership recognizes that the city will face growing threats from sea level rise, extreme precipitation, heat waves, and storm surge in the years to come. In this discussion, we will look at what the impacts of these threats will be, the broad range of strategies the City is deploying to tackle these issues, and the relationships being built to ensure success.

As The House of the Seven Gables completes its own Climate Adaptation Planning, funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, the necessity of community-wide resilience efforts has become increasingly clear. Pangallo and Duffy will describe some of the key actions the City is taking to ready itself and its residents for the future.