DOI Announces Climate Change Council
Goal is to coordinate strategies for resource management through bureaus.
Compiled by staff
Published: Sep 16, 2009
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has launched his Department's first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America's land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources. The order establishes a framework through which Interior bureaus will coordinate climate change science and resource management strategies.
The order established a new Climate Change Response Council; eight DOI regional Climate Change Response Centers; and a network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. These cooperatives will engage DOI and federal agencies, local and state partners, and the public to craft practical, landscape-level strategies for managing climate change impacts within the eight regions. The cooperatives will focus on impacts such as the effects of climate change on wildlife migration patterns, wildfire risk, drought, or invasive species.
In addition to coordinating DOI's response to the impacts of climate change, the Climate Change Response Council will oversee the DOI Carbon Storage Project, through which the Department of the Interior is developing methodologies for both geological and biological carbon storage. The Council will also oversee the DOI Carbon Footprint Project, through which DOI will develop a unified greenhouse gas emission reduction program, including setting a baseline and reduction goal for the Department's greenhouse gas emissions and energy use.
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