Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
A new assessment led by the Pacific RISA, a NOAA CAP/RISA team, offers insight about climate change risks in the Federated States of Micronesia and supports climate-wise planning.
The latest in a series of innovative peer-to-peer knowledge exchanges that Pacific RISA, a NOAA CAP team, has facilitated that further climate adaptation capacity-building and start to bridge the planning-to-implementation gap among county planners in Hawaiʻi.
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The study, published in the Journal of Frontiers in Climate, provided results that are transferable to other regions and scales. Sustained and collaborative regional climate assessments like this one can serve a key function in complementing major national and international assessments, by translating and more effectively targeting information to meet local needs in support of regional climate adaptation and policy making.
NOAA’s Climate Program Office and the U.S. Department of State collaborated with the Local2030 Islands Network to initiate a Community of Practice to support island-led resilience in the Caribbean and Pacific.