The White House Council on Environmental Quality: Recent Reports

Last week the White House Council on Environmental Quality released two interagency reports on climate adaptation: Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation, a progress report on the Federal Government’s work on climate adaptation during the last year, and a National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate.

The reports are the product of the Federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which was established under President Obama’s Executive Order 13514 (Federal Leadership in Environmental and Energy Performance) in October 2009.

The progress report emphasizes action happening on the ground in states and cities, as well as in federal agencies and in U.S. government-funded efforts around the world. The progress report follows an October 2010 report and instructions to the federal agencies issued in March 2011, both of which include ecosystem-based adaptation as a guiding principle for federal climate adaptation efforts.

CEQ has instructed the head of each federal agency to develop an agency adaptation plan by June 2012.

For more information about the federal government’s efforts in this area, please check out this blog entry from our Climate Adaptation Policy Advisor, Jennifer McKnight.

Posted by Anne Wallach Thomas on Thursday, November 3, 201111:02PM

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