Climate Change Plans and Impacts

Local

• Jefferson County Sea Level Rise Study (2023)
• THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND SEA LEVEL RISE AND COASTAL FLOODING RISK ASSESSMENT (2022)
• Jefferson County Forest and Trees Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2001-2016 and Next Steps (2022)
• 2020_JeffCo_GHG_Reduction_Opportunities (2021)
• Jefferson County Climate Action Committee
• Climate Preparedness Plan for the North Olympic Peninsula (Sept 2015)
• Jefferson County 2018 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
• Jefferson County and Port Townsend Climate Action Plan (2011)

Regional/Statewide

• Fifth National Climate Assessment – Northwest Chapter (2023)
• Climate Change in Puget Sound (Nov 2015)
• Climate Change in Washington – The WA Dept of Ecology page on Climate Change. You can see the state greenhouse gas inventory here.
• Projected Sea Level Rise for Washington State (2018)
• Sea Level Rise in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California 2018 – a nice summary of the adaptation strategies that have been utilized in the NW
• Washington State Coast Resilience Assessment Final Report (2017)
• Pacific Northwest Agriculture and Climate Change Webinar Series from WSU
• Preparing for a Changing Climate – Washington State’s Integrated Climate Response Strategy (April 2012)
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Washington State: Technical Summaries for Decision Makers (released Jan 2014)
• Climate Change Impacts in the United States – Northwest Chapter (released May 2014)
• Adapting To Climate Change at Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park
• Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Climate Adaptation Report
• Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for our Landscapes, Waters and Communities
• Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Climate Change Study
• North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative – this website has a variety of information on science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors, for the Northern California to Alaska coast.
• Seattle’s Climate Action Plan
• City of Olympia efforts:
  • Presentation from Stephen Buxbaum, former mayor of Olympia to Port Townsend downtown business owners and others at Sea Level Rise workshop: Buxbaum Presentation to PT SLR Workshop;
  • Olympia Sea Level Rise Response Plan (2019)

National

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume 2: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation in the U.S. (2018)
• Climate Change Impacts in the United States (released May 2014)
• Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017)
• Obama’s Climate Action Plan
• EPA’s Clean Power Plan
• National Level Mitigation Strategies:
  • Jacobson/Stanford
  • Heinberg: 100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
  • Union of Concerned Scientists Climate 2030 Blueprint
• Adaptation planning assistance/tools:
  • ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • The Nature Conservancy
• Adaptation Databases/Examples:
  • Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities
  • Green Infrastructure Effectiveness Database: “Search this online database of literature sources containing information on the effectiveness of green infrastructure to reduce the impacts of coastal hazards, such as … more frequent precipitation events, and sea level rise.”
• Policy:
  • Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
  • Georgetown Climate Center
• Examples from other communities:
  • Miami – Dade Sea Level Rise Task Force Report and Recommendations
    • NPR article as-waters-rise-miami-beach-builds-higher-streets-and-political-willpower
  • “A Stronger, More Resilient New York”
    
  • Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
  • Adapting to Rising Tides – a San Francisco Bay Area organization focused on climate adaptation and methodology. See nice graphics of climate challenges here.
  • Atlantic City New Jersey, Resilient shores: After Sandy, climate scientists and architects explore how to co-exist with rising tides
  • Norfolk, Virginia: In Norfolk, evidence of climate change is in the streets at high tide, and another article describing impacts on piers and on housing prices
  • New York City seawall: Can a Massive Seawall save New York from Flooding
  • Diagram of a Washington DC levee

International

Here are some of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports:

• IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (Aug 2021)
• IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5’C (2018)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
• Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change

Examples from international communities:

• Venice:
  • Nova special on Saving Venice From the Sea
  • The gates that could save Venice
• England: an article on planned retreat in one English coastal area