Candidates will address climate change, expected to cost Florida $76 billion by 2040

Among hot topics to be discussed will be climate change— responses to which Tampa Bay’s leaders are listening closely to.

According to a new report from Resilient Analytics and the Center for Climate Integrity, estimates that the state will likely have to fund $76 billion worth of sea walls by 2040 to mitigate the effects of climate change, based on the low end of sea level rise estimates.