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The United States is not immune to a long-time problem in the developing world: the difficulty in getting climate cash to communities most affected by global warming but often least equipped to access help.

US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., receives a briefing on the impact of Hurricane Ian on Sept. 29, 2022, at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, DC. — Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz/Flickr

As more federal funding becomes available to help communities deal with growing climate change-related flood risk, much of it has been steered to wealthier, coastal communities better able to manage the sometimes complex and time-consuming application processes, researchers say. Aware of such concerns, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in the midst of reworking the program, known as Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities , to ease the burden on more rural and disadvantaged areas.

“So you’re creating further unintended consequences of the most socially vulnerable falling out the bottom.”The US BRIC program marks a shift in attitude toward disaster relief for FEMA, which runs point for the US federal government’s response to major disasters such as hurricanes and floods. But in 2020, 94% of the funding was set to flow to wealthier, coastal states, according to an analysis from Ms. Smith’s group.

In addition to staff shortages and capacity issues, the requirement that local governments foot up to 25% of the costs of work is another of the chief obstacles blocking access to cash for smaller, vulnerable towns, said Kyle Magyera of the Wisconsin Wetlands Association. She pointed, for example, to a ward-level group in Kenya, working to manage drought. It invested in veterinary services after observing that sick cattle were among the first to die in dry periods.

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