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![Suburban Neighborhood after Wildfire Burned Hillside Right up to Edge of Homes](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/shutterstock_734447899_reduced.jpg?quality=75&w=1000)
Brookings Metro is contributing to equitable climate mitigation and adaptation through new federal investments by framing the need for community-led solutions to sustainable local development, making the case for reliable measures of the “payoff” from resilience-focused investments, demonstrating how the public sector can tap emerging data sources to better partner with investors and consumers, and bolstering local capacity to deploy federal investment toward equitable, climate-smart outcomes.