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Climate Change: Future Federal Adaptation Efforts Could Better Support Local Infrastructure Decision Makers

Government Accountability Office http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-242 [Energy Guardian article by Edward Felker] The Obama administration should do more to make federal climate change information available to communities coping with higher tides, strong storms and other problems caused by warmer temperatures, government auditors say. The Government Accountability Office called on President Barack Obama to tap a single office … Continue reading »

Adaptation in Europe – Addressing Risks and Opportunities from Climate Change in the Context of Socio-economic Developments

European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/adaptation-in-europe This report provides policymakers across Europe, at different levels of governance and stages of policy formulation, with information that can be used to support adaptation planning and implementation. Specific parts of the report are therefore targeted at different audiences.

Evolutionary Change During Experimental Ocean Acidification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 23, 2013, v110 n17 p6937-6942) / by Melissa H. Pespeni, Eric Sanford, Brian Gaylord, Tessa M. Hill, Jessica D. Hosfelt, Hannah K. Jaris, Michèle LaVigne, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Ann D. Russell, Megan K. Young and Stephen R. Palumbia http://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6937.short Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) conditions are driving unprecedented changes … Continue reading »

National Adaptation Planning Lessons from OECD Countries

OECD / by Michael Mullan, Nicholas Kingsmill, Arnoldo Matus Kramer and Shardul Agrawala http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/national-adaptation-planning_5k483jpfpsq1-en Since the first OECD country published its national adaptation strategy in 2005, there has been a marked increase in national planning for climate change adaptation. This paper provides an overview of national adaptation planning activity across OECD countries and identifies some of the emerging … Continue reading »

National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Partnership http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/strategy.php The purpose of the Strategy is to inspire and enable natural resource professionals and other decision makers to take action to conserve the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and ecosystem functions, as well as the human uses and values these natural systems provide, in a changing … Continue reading »

The Critical Decade: Extreme Weather

Australian Climate Commission http://climatecommission.gov.au/report/extreme-weather/ [The Australian] A report released today by the Climate Commission says climate change has driven an increase in the occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events like floods, bushfires, droughts and hot days… Australia’s populous southeast is particularly vulnerable, it says, sparking calls from the report’s authors for governments, emergency services, businesses … Continue reading »

DNA Net Earth

Brookings Institution http://bit.ly/149zQPc Human activity has dramatically accelerated the extinction of species. Man-made habitat alteration has been the leading cause, in combination with direct exploitation. Now climate change threatens to increase extinction rates even more. Adaptation to climate change requires integration of climate impacts in planning and action for biodiversity conservation, and the overall task … Continue reading »

The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change

UN Population Fund | International Institute for Environment and Development http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pid/13218 ….This book addresses a major gap in adaptation efforts to date by pointing to the vital role that an understanding of population dynamics and an extensive use of demographic data have in developing pre-emptive and effective adaptation policies and practices. Politics and an oversimplified … Continue reading »