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Building Resilience

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Our Mission

Resilience is a global business imperative. AT&T’s approach is helping to ensure a resilient future.  

Building a Resilient Network

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Network Resilience

AT&T is enhancing extreme weather resilience in our own network operations and in our communities.

We integrate advanced data into decision-making processes to protect our infrastructure, and we make that data available to communities to assist in their hazard mitigation and resilience planning.

We continue to seek new ways to integrate  data into our planning systems to inform infrastructure decisions for the future.

 

Severe Weather and Natural Disaster Data

AT&T collaborates with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory to produce and leverage best-in-class data.

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Data Benefits

Understanding Extreme Weather Impacts

This data helps us understand how extreme weather impacts could affect our network and operations up to 30 years in the future, and down to the neighborhood level.

Preparing for Extreme Weather

Combined with near-term forecasts and historical trends, these projections help us anticipate, prepare for and prepare for extreme weather.

Data Integration

This data is integrated into systems and processes that guide infrastructure buildouts in both the wireless and the wireline parts of AT&T’s business.

Building Resilient Communities

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ClimRR 

AT&T has teamed up and Argonne National Laboratory and other collaborators to develop the ClimRR portal.

  • ClimRR is an online tool that makes some of the most sophisticated extreme weather science modeling in the world publicly accessible. 
  • It provides state, local, Tribal and territorial emergency managers and policymakers with free access to localized data about future extreme weather that can be used to develop strategies for resilience.
  • ClimRR enables state and local governments and public safety officials to understand how severe weather risks, such as extreme heat, heavy rainfall, wildfire and drought, will affect their populations over the coming decades.

 

Resilient Communities Initiative

AT&T’s Resilient Communities Initiative provides additional support to state and local governments. 

  • It includes technical and strategic assistance in running extreme weather risk analyses and incorporating ClimRR insights into state and local hazard mitigation and climate resilience plans.
  • Working with city planners, sustainability professionals and emergency managers, our experts examine how local populations could be impacted by severe weather hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, dangerous fire weather conditions or drought.
  • This empowers local agencies to take proactive steps to protect the most vulnerable members of their communities.

To date, the initiative has provided expert guidance to communities in Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky and New York, identifying local extreme weather vulnerabilities and recommending solutions to address escalating hazards. To drive further impact, we're also developing materials that offer instruction to communities on how to use ClimRR to inform their local hazard mitigation planning, enabling even more communities to pursue this kind of work.

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