Sunday, July 14, 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. MDT
Location: Interlocken A

The United States is developing the first “Hazards Account” on hazards, extreme weather, and climate events to improve understanding of hazard mitigation and recovery costs. This Account will expand the monitoring of U.S. disaster loss and impacts and will inform the National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions. Facilitators in this session will introduce the Hazards Account and discuss its system for tracking the value of natural assets to disaster risk reduction, the impact of hazards on the loss of natural assets, and the interactions between hazards, physical assets, natural assets, and resilience. The goal of this work is to provide a fuller understanding of linkages between the U.S. economy and the cost of hazard mitigation and recovery. Audience members will be invited to provide feedback and discuss these issues.