Local Strategies for Climate change, Vol. 2
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About This Report / White Paper
Local Strategies for Climate change Volume 2 presents additional information on how communities can plan for and adapt to climate change through stories describing resources that some communities are using to address this pressing management challenge.
Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change Through Local Conservation Efforts: A South Kingstown Land Trust Pilot Project
Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change Through Local Conservation Efforts is a report resulting from a two-year pilot project aiming to foster climate change adaptation at the community level.
Climate Change Basics
This document reviews the basics of climate change, including impacts of climate change and the future impacts of climate change.
Planning for Climate Change
Whether they take credit for it or not, land trusts already plan for climate change. This document outlines tools and approaches land trusts can use to plan for climate change in the short-term and long-term.
Climate Change Education Partnership Program
The Climate Change Education Partnership supports climate change communication tools and resources across the country.
Climate Communications Report: How to Talk About Climate Change
This report from the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute aims to provide helpful guidance on how to connect on climate change and information to help land trusts respond to the greatest challenge of our time.
USFWS Climate Change Website
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change website emphasizes adaptation, mitigation and engagement to address impacts to wildlife and natural habitat. This includes Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change.
The Essential Principles of Climate Literacy
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change and approaches to adaptation or mitigation.
Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans
The Being Prepared for Climate Change workbook guides users to develop a risk-based climate change adaptation plan consisting of a vulnerability assessment and an action plan to reduce the most pressing risks.
How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation
"How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation" is an online, self-guided resource that provides a step-by-step approach, worksheets and curated resources to create a new conservation plan or update an existing one that incorporates climate change information.
From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies Are Providing Solutions to Climate Change
Land conservation and efforts to combat climate change are closely linked, and one cannot succeed without the other. This guide offers case studies about how land trusts and conservancies are working to address climate change.