Miami Tower Collapse Stokes New Fears of Rising Seas

A piece in HuffPost cites RFF research calling Miami "one of the most at-risk cities in the world" for climate-related damages in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.

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June 25, 2021

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Media Highlight

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HuffPost

"A 2020 report from Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, concluded that Miami is 'one of the most at-risk cities in the world from the damages caused by coastal flooding and storms.'"

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Daniel Raimi

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Daniel Raimi is a fellow and director of the Equity in the Energy Transition Initiative at RFF. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition.

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