National Assessment of Climate Change begins

One of the primary concerns of the National Assessment is responding to the needs of stakeholders.  That means, the National Assessment wants to hear from you.  What sort of information do you need about climate change?  What are your local adaptation and mitigation needs?  What kind of science could help you make better policy decisions?  What are your questions about the role and results of federal climate change research?

• Knowledge Management for the Assessment
• Communications and Engagement Strategy for the Assessment
• Economic and Alternative Valuation Techniques for the Assessment
• Vulnerability Assessment Techniques for the Assessment
• Planning and Guidelines for Regional and Sectoral Assessments
• National Climate Assessment – International Context Workshop
• Scenarios Strategy for the Assessment
• Modeling Strategy for the Assessment
• Monitoring Climate Change and its Impacts: Sources for Indicators, Detection, and Attribution

Workshops will initially be by invite-only events, however, beginning in January 2011, we will begin holding a series of broader regional and sectoral workshops to in order to mobilize networks to identify local climate impacts and vulnerabilities and to evaluate adaptation options and science gaps. Check back regularly with our calendar in order to see when and where each of these workshops will be taking place.