Reporting from Whitefish –
Western Governors Release Climate
Adaptation Report

July 1st, 2010 • Filed Under
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Reported by Staff

WHITEFISH, MONT. — The Western Governors’ Association has published a climate adaptation scoping report that emphasizes the need for coordination between state and federal efforts to identify key science that is Western specific and begins to share and implement smart practices.

The governors adopted the report during their Annual Meeting here this week. Govs. Bill Richardson (N.M.) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Calif.) are WGA’s lead governors for Climate Adaptation. Following ar excerpts from that letter that accompanied the report:

“Across the western United States, we are already experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change on our environment, infrastructure, economies and communities. Clearly, we must implement new management strategies to build a resilient West.

“Western governors recognize the need to work together to respond to these changes, which stand to greatly affect our quality of life. In 2009, the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) adopted a policy resolution titled Supporting the Integration of Climate Change Adaptation Science in the West. This resolution represented the governors’ interest in a coordinated response to climate change impacts and in including climate science in our policy and management activities.

The WGA Climate Adaptation Work Group will work with stakeholders to implement the recommendations in the report, which is available at www.westgov.org.

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