State Adaptation Resources

Alaska                                                                                                   

Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet

• Alaska Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Group
• “Recommendations Report to the Governor’s Subcabinet on Climate Change,” April 17, 2008 (PDF)
• “Alaska’s Climate Change Strategy: Addressing Impacts in Alaska (Final Report),” January 2010 (PDF)
• “Recommendations to the Governor’s Subcabinet on Climate Change,” March 2009 (PDF)
• “Natural Systems Technical Working Group – Recommended Adaptation Options,” May 27, 2009 (PDF)

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

• “Alaska Department of Fish and Game Climate Change Strategy,” November 2010 (PDF)

Alaska State House of Representatives

• “Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission Final Report,” March 17, 2008 (PDF)

Arizona                                                                                                   

Arizona Game and Fish Department

• “Arizona’s State Wildlife Action Plan: 2012-2022,”May 16, 2012 (PDF)

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

• “Climate Change Action Plan,” August 2006 (PDF)

City of Flagstaff

• “City of Flagstaff Resiliency and Preparedness Study,” September 2012 (PDF)

California                                                                                       

California Adaptation Portal

California Natural Resources Agency

• “2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy (First Year Progress Report),” 2010 (PDF)

• “California Adaptation Planning Guide – Planning for Adaptive Communities,” July 2012 (PDF)

• Safeguarding California Plan

  • “2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy” (PDF)
  • “Safeguarding California: Reducing Climate Risk (An Update to the 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy),” December 2013 (PDF)

• Cal-Adapt – Adaptation planning tool

California Energy Commission

California Emergency Management Agency

• Hazard Mitigation Map

• MyHazards Tool

Department of Water Resources

• California Water Plan

• “California Drought Contingency Plan,” November 2010 (PDF)

• Department of Water Resources – Climate Change

  • “Managing an Uncertain Future – Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California’s Water,” October 2008 (PDF)

State of California Coastal Conservancy & Climate Ready Program

• Climate Ready Program

• “California State Coastal Conservancy – Strategic Plan 2013-2018,” (PDF)

Delta Stewardship Council

• The Delta Plan

Pacific Council on International Policy

• “Preparing for the Effects of Climate Change – A Strategy for California,” November 22, 2010 (PDF) 

Colorado                                                                                                

“Colorado Climate Action Plan – A Strategy to Address Global Warming ,” November 2007 (PDF)

Western Water Assessment

• Colorado Climate Preparedness Project

  • Final Report

• Southwest Climate Change Initiative

  • “Gunnison Basin Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment,” December 31, 2011 (PDF)

• Colorado Water Conservation Board

  • “Climate Change in Colorado,” 2008 (PDF)

The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization

Model Forest Policy Program – La Plata County

Connecticut                                                                                       

Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (Climate Change Gateway)

• Climate Change Gateway
• “Taking Action on Climate Change – 2014 Progress Report,” June 6, 2014 (PDF)
• “Connecticut Climate Change Preparedness Plan,” 2011 (PDF) 
• “Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan for 2007-2010,” December 2007 (PDF)

Long Island Sound Study (in partnership w/ EPA)

Groton, Connecticut Coastal Climate Adaptation Workshop

Delaware                                                                                              

State of Delaware Coastal Programs

• Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment

State of Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife

• Delaware Wildlife Action Plan

Lewes, Delaware, Climate Change Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Workshops

• “The City of Lewes Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Action Plan,” June 2011 (PDF)

University of Delaware Center for Transportation

• “Delaware’s Transportation Adaptation in Response to Climate Change,” December 3, 2011 (PDF)

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc.

• “Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary: Three Case Studies in Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning,” June 2010 (PDF)

Florida                                                                                                   

1000 Friends of Florida (Database including many of the following links)

Governor’s Action team on Energy and Climate Change

• “A Report to Governor Charlie Crist – Phase 1 Report – Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan,” November 1, 2007 (PDF)
• “Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan,” October 15, 2008 (PDF)

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

• “How Countries, States, and Florida Address Sea Level Rise: A Compendium of Climate Adaptation Research,”(PDF)

Florida Center for Environmental Studies

• Climate Change in South Florida
• “Florida’s Resilient Coasts: A State Policy Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change,” 2008 (PDF)

2060 Florida Transportation Plan

Southeast Florida Climate Compact

• “Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact– Regional Climate Action Plan,” October 2012 (PDF)
• “Analysis of the Vulnerability of Southeast Florida to Sea Level Rise: Southeast Florida,” August 2012 (PDF)

Miami-Dade Green County (Southeast Florida)

• “Institutionalizing  Climate Preparedness in Miami-Dade County, Florida,” 2010 (PDF)
• NOAA Coastal Services Center, Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Miami – Dade County, Florida
• “Planning for Hazards and Climate Change Impacts: One County’s Approach,” 2009 (PDF)

Broward County, Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact

• Resilient Coastal Communities 
• “Broward County Climate Change Action Plan,” May 4, 2010 (PDF)

Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council

• Lee County (Southwest Florida)
  • “Lee County Climate Change Resiliency Strategy,” October 6, 2010 (PDF)
• “City of Punta Gorda Adaptation Plan (Southwest Florida),” November 18, 2009 (PDF)

Hawaii                                                                                                   

State of Hawaii Office of Planning, Adapting to Climate Change

• Act 286 (2012), Climate Change Adaptation Priority Guidelines

Sea Grant University of Hawaii

• “Climate Change Law and Policy in Hawaii,” 2012 (PDF)
• “Facing our Future: Adaptive Planning for Sea-level Rise in Maui and Hawaii Counties,” July 2012 (PDF)

Native Communities and Climate Change

• “A Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaii,” November 2009 (PDF)

Illinois                                                                                                   

City of Chicago

• Chicago Climate Action Plan Main Page

  • “Chicago Climate Action Plan (Progress Report),”September 18, 2008 (PDF)
  • “Chicago Climate Action Plan (Final Report),” (PDF)

• “Adding Green to Urban Design,” November 20, 2008 (PDF)

“CMAP, Climate Adaptation Guidebook for Municipalities in the Chicago Region”

Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group

The Nature Conservancy

• “Climate Change Adaptation Case Study: Updating the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan: using a vulnerability assessment to inform conservation priorities,” 2011 (PDF)

Iowa                                                                                                        

Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council

• “Transportation and Land Use – Summary of Recommended Priority Policy Options,” August 19, 2008 (PDF)

Iowa Wildlife Action Plan Main Page

US EPA

• “Iowa Cimate Change Adaptation & Resilience Report” 2011 (PDF)

Kentucky                                                                                                 

Energy and Environment Cabinet

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

• “Action Plan to Respond to Climate Change in Kentucky: A Strategy of Resilience,” 2010 (PDF)

Louisiana

Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

• Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast

Terrebonne Parish Sustainable Communities

Maine

Maine Department of Environmental Protection

• “People and Nature – Adapting to a Changing Climate (2010)” (PDF)
• “A Climate Action Plan for Maine,” December 1, 2004 (PDF)

More from Climate Central Database

Maryland

Maryland – Smart, Green & Growing

• “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan Chapter 8: Adaptation”

Maryland Department of the Environment

• “Maryland Commission on Climate Change,” January 2010 (PDF)
• “Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Maryland’s Vulnerability to Climate Change – Phase I: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Storms,” July 2008 (PDF)

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

• “Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Maryland’s Vulnerability to Climate Change – Phase II,” January 2011 (PDF)

Plan Maryland

Maryland Insurance Administration

• “2010 Report of the Climate Change Insurance Advisory Committee,” (PDF)

Somerset County

• “Somerset County, Maryland Rising Sea Level Guidance,” September 24, 2008 (PDF)

Baltimore

• “Baltimore Climate Action Plan,” January 15, 2013 (PDF)

Dorchester County

• “Sea Level Rise: Technical Guidance for Dorchester County,” October 2008 (PDF)

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

• Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report, September 2011
• Global Warming Solutions Act
• Climate Change Adaptation and its Impacts

Climate Change and Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife

Boston

• “A climate of Progress – City of Boston Climate Action Plan Update 2011.” April 2011 (PDF)

Buzzards Bay

• “Action Plan 18 – Planning for a Shifting Shoreline and Coastal Storms,” (PDF)
• “Sea Level Rise implications: An Action Plan for Buzzards Bay,” (PDF)

Michigan

Michigan Department of Community Health

• Michigan Department of Community Health – Climate and Health Adaptation Main Page
• “Michigan Climate and Health Adaptation Plan – 2010-2015 Strategic Plan,” January 18, 2011 (PDF)

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

• Michigan Climate Action Plan Main Page
• “Climate Change Adaptation Pan for Coastal and Inland Wetlands in the State of Michigan,” September 2012 (PDF)

City of Grand Rapids Sustainability Plan

EcoAdapt

• “The State of Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes Region,” October 2012 (PDF)

Minnesota

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency – Adaptation Page

• Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group
• “Adapting to Climate Change in Minnesota – 2013 Report of the Interagency Climate Adaptation Team,” November 2013 (PDF)
• “Minnesota Climate Change Action Plan: A Framework for Climate Change Action,” February 2003 (PDF)

Mississippi

City of Waveland

• “City of Waveland Local Hazard Mitigation Plan,” March 2013 (PDF)

EPA Region 4

• “Adaptation Implementation Plan – Region 4 Draft,” 2013 (PDF)

Montana

Montana Department of Environmental Quality – Climate Change Website

• “Montana Climate Change Action Plan,” November 2007 (PDF)

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services – Climate Change Program Page

• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Climate Action Plan
• Adapting to Climate Change
• Adaptation Toolkit

New Hampshire Energy and Climate Collaborative

• Collaborative Adaptation Workgroup, October 5, 2012

New Hampshire Fish and Game

Rockingham Planning Commission

• “Adaptation Strategies to Protect Areas of Increased Risk from Coastal Flooding Due to Climate Change, Seabrook, NH” July 25, 2009 (PDF)

City of Keene

• “Adapting to Climate Change: Planning a Climate Resilient Community,” November 2007 (PDF)

New Jersey

State of New Jersey – Global Warming

• “Stakeholder Input to Draft Global Warming Response Act Recommendation Report,” December 15, 2008

Rutgers New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance

• New Jersey Climate Adaptation Directory

New Mexico

The Nature Conservancy

New Mexico Conservation Science Program

New York

New York Department of Environmental Conservation

• New York Sea Level Rise Task Force
• Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy Plan

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

• Responding to Climate Change in New York State (ClimAID)

University Transportation Research Center

• “Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation Strategies into New York State Department of Transportation’s operations: Final Report,” October 31, 2011 (PDF)

New York State 2100 Commission

• Recommendations to Improve the Strength and Resilience of the Empire State’s Infrastructure
• “Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response,” May 2010 

New York State Waterfront Revitalization Program

The New York City Panel on Climate Change

• PlaNYC
  • “A Stronger, More Resilient New York,” June 11, 2013 (PDF)
• “Assessment and Action Plan Report 1,”May 2008 (PDF)

“Vision 2020 New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Development Plan,” March 2011 (PDF)

Nevada

“Governor Jim Gibbons’ Nevada Climate Change Advisory Committee Final Report,” May 31, 2008 (PDF)

Nevada National Heritage Program – Climate Change Program

North Carolina

North Carolina Interagency Leadership Team

EPA Climate Action Plan Advisory Group

Ohio

Sustainable Cleveland

• “Cleveland Climate Action Plan,” 2013 (PDF)

Ohio Energy Resources (Ohio University and The Ohio State University)

• “Assuring Ohio’s Competitiveness in a Carbon-Constrained World: A Collaboration between Ohio University and the Ohio State University,” 2011 (PDF)

Oregon

State of Oregon

• “The Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Report,” April 2012 (PDF)

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

• “Preparing Oregon’s Fish, Wildlife, and Habitats for Future Climate Change: A Guide for State Adaptation Efforts,” 2008 (PDF)

Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Northwest Climate Assessment Reports

Oregon Department of Transportation

• “ODOT’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy report,” April 2012 (PDF)

Keep Oregon Cool (Oregon Global Warming Commission)

• “Interim Roadmap to 2020,” October 29, 2010 (PDF)

Portland

• “City of Portland and Multnomah County Climate Action Plan 2009,” October 2009 (PDF)

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

• Climate Change Adaption Main Page

“Pennsylvania Climate Adaptation Planning Report: Risks and Practical Recommendations,” January 2011 (PDF)

Rhode Island

The State of Rhode Island’s climate change site

Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, Climate Change & Sea Level Rise site

Rhode Island Climate Change Commission, Adapting to Climate Change in the Ocean State: A Starting Point Nov. 2012 (PDF) – 2012 progress report of the Rhode Island Climate Change Commission

Rhode Island GHG Stakeholder Process (Rhode Island Dept. of Env. Mgt.) Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Action Plan (PDF)

“Rhode Island Efforts Towards Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change,” Nov 18 2009 (PDF)

Brown University Center for Environmental Studies – Summary: Preliminary Assessment of Rhode Island’s Vulnerability to Climate Change and its Options for Adaptation Action (PDF)

South Carolina

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

• “Adapting to Shoreline Change,” April 2012 (PDF)

Tennessee

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

• “Climate Change and Potential Impacts to Wildlife in Tennessee,” 2009 (PDF)

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Tennessee Climatological Service

Utah

Salt Lake City

• Sustainable Salt Lake

Vermont

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department

Vermont Agency of Transportation

• “Adapting Vermont’s Transportation Infrastructure to the Future Impacts of Climate Change,” August 13, 2012 (PDF)
• “Vtrans Climate Change Action Plan,” June 2008 (PDF)

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Climate Change Adaptation

Virginia

Be Wild, Virginia!, Virginia’s Strategy for Safeguarding Species of Greatest Conservation Need from the Effects of Climate Change

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Coastal Needs Assessment and Strategies: FY2011-2015

Washington

Department of Ecology – State of Washington

• Washington State Integrated Climate Change Response Strategy
• Preparing for a Changing Climate – Washington State’s integrated Climate Response Strategy
• Clearinghouse: Impacts, Preparation, Adaptation Resources
• 2008 Comprehensive Plan

King County

• “Strategic Climate Action Plan,” December 2012 (PDF)

Seattle

• Seattle Climate Action Plan 2013
• “Seattle Climate Protection Initiative Progress Report 2009,” (PDF)

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts

• “Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptation,”2011 (PDF)
• “Adapting to Wisconsin’s Changing Climate – Science and Collaboration,” (PDF)

Dane County

Tribal Resources

Native Communities and Climate Change

• “A Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaii,” November 2009 (PDF)