Mitigation
Sustainable Development: Climate Foundation
The Climate Foundation is dedicated to educating and empowering people to halt global warming in our lifetimes. We are working to moderate and reverse the effects of climate change in critical ecosystems, including; Reversing coral bleaching on high-value coral reefs to preserve portions of these ecosystems during the high-temperature decades to come, Encouraging and facilitating the adoption of renewable energy for electricity and transportation in place of fossil fuels throughout the world, etc.
Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation
o Addresses underlying causes of global warming o focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
EPA Climate Change Action Plans - by State
Examples of climate change action plans developed by local governments are listed according to their states.
Hierarchy of Actions
(Minute 25:40) - Decrease other stressors (Habitat destruction, invasives, overexploitation) - Monitoring and Management (i.e. warbler moving further north) - In MI southern squirrel moving north and the northern squirrel population is moving further south - Corridors to avoid fragmentation - Prioritize species: Already occurs with funding
