Adapting to Climate Change
How Will We Adjust to the Realities of Climate Change?
Climate change has already caused a variety of real-world impacts. Over time, with proper policy responses, some of these can be reversed, and some can be mitigated. But one important area for research and policymaking focuses on how we adapt to the various effects of climate change, even while working to undo or mitigate the causes and larger effects of climate change itself.
In March 2012, CPR cosponsored a conference at the University of North Carolina at which an interdisciplinary group of academics, non-profit and business representatives, and government officials gathered to discuss how the government could facilitate adaptation efforts in the private sector. The gathering was intended as the beginning of a longer and long-term discussion about how the government can encourage, facilitate, and even demand adaptive actions from the different parts of the private sector and how the government can shape the private sector response in a positive manner. CPR Member Scholar Victor Flatt and Policy Analyst Yee Huang prepared a summary of the ideas discussed, published in July 2012. Read an introductory blog post on the paper by Huang.
- Seven Principles of Fairness. Read Adapting to Climate Change in the United States: Seven Principles for Achieving Fairness, CPR Issue Alert 1306, by Alice Kaswan, May 2013.
- Adaptation Conference. Read a summary of the March 2012 conference cosponsored by CPR, Climate Change Adaptation: The Impact of Law on Adaptation in the Private Sector, CPR White Paper 1209.
- Adaptation in Puget Sound. Read about a unique CPR project aimed at helping the Puget Sound region adapt to climate change.
- CPRBlog Entries: Read Tweaking the Climate Change Adaptation Proposal, May 5, 2009, by Alejandro Camacho; and Waxman-Markey: Adaptation, April 7, 2009, by Holly Doremus and Alejandro Camacho.
- CPRBlog Entries on the 111th Congress. CPR Member Scholars started blogging about various climate change bills as soon as they were introcuded, offering detailed legislative analysis by blog. The bills didn't survive, but the blogging does. Read their CPRBlog entries on the Boxer-Kerry bill and the Kerry-Lieberman bill. Or read their entries on Waxman-Markey, from the day it was introduced in the House through passage in June 2009 and beyond.
- Mitigation, Prevention, Preemption. Also Read about CPR Member Scholars' work on Mitigating and Preventing Climate Change and Preemption of Regional, State and Local Climate Change Policies.
- Global Warming Publications. Read CPR Member Scholars' various publications on global warming topics, including Adaptation, Book Reviews, Boxer-Kerry, Cap and Trade, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Coal-fired Power Plants, the Copenhagen Conference, Costs, Economics, Effects on Trade, Environmental Justice, Federalism Issues, Global Warming in general, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Legislation, Liquefied Natural Gas, Litigation, Modeling Issues, Natural Resources/Conservation Issues, the Obama Administration, Offset Programs, Preemption, Regulation, Technology, Testimony, Water Law, and Waxman-Markey.
- Bibliography. CPR Member Scholars have published a number of articles on adaptation. See a bibliography here.)
