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Resources for NOAA's Climate Ready Workforce
... for Coastal and Great Lakes States, Tribes, and Territories
Sea Grant and the NOAA Climate Program Office, with support from the NOAA Office of Coastal Management, seek to establish programs aimed at placing people across the country into good jobs that advance climate resilience and assist employers in developing a 21st-century workforce that is climate literate, informed by climate resilience, and skilled at addressing consequent challenges. NOAA will assist communities in coastal and Great Lakes states and territories so they may form partnerships that train workers and place them into jobs that enhance climate resilience.
NOAA envisions making between 10-20 awards under this competition, at amounts ranging from $500,000-$10 million each. NOAA expects projects to range in duration from 24 months to 48 months, beginning no earlier than August 1, 2024. This opportunity is open to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations in coastal states or territories.
View the NOAA news release announcing the Climate Ready Workforce Competition >>
Resources will be available to provide technical assistance to applicants and recipients to support these innovative efforts.
- View PDF of the formal announcement >>
- Climate Ready Workforce for Coastal States and Territories Competition fact sheet >>
- Additional resources and announcements related to the Climate Ready Workforce Competition will be updated here >>
Questions about this opportunity may be submitted to [email protected].
Program Information
Unprecedented efforts from federal, state, private, and philanthropic sectors across the United States are confronting climate change. Much-needed investments increasingly focus on resilience to climate-related hazards (Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook) into historically underserved communities (Justice 40). The influx of resources has created a demand for jobs whose skills require specialized training.
The Climate Ready Workforce competition will help close that gap. Funds will help employers find and place skilled workers in the new jobs that are needed to enhance climate resilience. Also, funds will support workers as they enter or transition into those “good jobs that enhance climate resilience."
For the purposes of this NOFO, “good jobs that enhance climate resilience” meet two sets of criteria, which are described in the next two sections.
Resources to Support a Climate-Ready Workforce
Online Resources
Other Reports and Frameworks
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