Key Biscayne knows what sea level rise would do to a low-lying barrier island, and it’s not good.
It declared a climate emergency, had experts analyze its flooding vulnerabilities and suggest solutions and held community meetings to get public input on residents’ worries and wants. The village also hired its first Chief Resilience Officer, Roland Samimy, a coastal systems and water resources scientist with decades of experience in the public and private sector.
Now, it wants to put money behind the conversations and reports. And the path ahead requires navigating both the complicated world of climate change adaptation and politics…