Rockefeller to wind down biggest private climate resilience push

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 US, the foundation announced Monday.
BY BLOOMBERG NEWS, CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE

Rockefeller will shift some of its resilience funding to the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, with a USD 30 million grant to the council's Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience, the foundation said in a press release. Rockefeller also announced a USD 12 million grant "to allow continued support and transition time to the 100 Resilient Cities network through much of 2019."

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