The Climate, Energy and Coast project seeks to ensure a sustainable Gulf Coast, and to define sustainability based on the lessons learned and intellectual capital created around comprehensive coastal protection and restoration.

Home to America's WETLAND, the Gulf Coast faces the largest demonstrable sustainability crisis in the nation. From this region, the best practices in dealing with climate changes, coastal erosion and energy needs can emerge to serve as models for current and potential energy-producing regions around the world.

The goal is to look at all problems - not in isolation - but in relationship with one another, so that both energy and environmental assets can be sustained in the face of global climate change.