A Source Toolbox for Climate Change Reporting in the Emerald Corridor

A Source Toolbox for Climate Change Reporting in the Emerald Corridor [1]

March 31, 2020

[2]

Covering Your Climate: A Source Toolbox for Climate Change Reporting in the Emerald Corridor

As part of our special report “Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor [2],” a joint project between journalism nonprofit InvestigateWest [3] and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ SEJournal [4], we’ve collected a wide range of resources to help reporters track down climate stories throughout the Pacific Northwest. You’ll find an array of government, academic and NGO links for Oregon, including Portland; Washington, including Seattle; and British Columbia, including Vancouver, as well as from regional, national and international resources.

Oregon climate resources

Oregon Global Warming Commission’s Keep Oregon Cool [5] plan (2018)
Oregon Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data [6] (2018)
Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Framework (PDF) [7] (2010)
Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Planning [8]
Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Change Resources [9]
Oregon Health Authority’s Climate Change and Public Health (PDF) [10] (2018)
Oregon Health Authority’s Climate & Health Resilience Plan [11] (2017)
Oregon Department of Energy: Addressing Climate Change [12]
Oregon Department of Transportation: Transportation & Climate Change [13]
Oregon’s Clean Fuel Standards [14]
Oregon’s Energy Facilities Siting [15] project
Oregon’s Coastal Atlas [16] (2017)

Academia & NGOs

Oregon Climate Change Research Institute [17] (OCCRI) at Oregon State University
OCCRI’s Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report [18] (2019)
Oregon Climate Trust [19] (focused on greenhouse gas mitigation)

City of Portland & Multnomah County

Climate Action Plan [20]
2019-2050 Climate Policy Commitments [21] Next Steps
Carbon Emissions & Trends [22] (2017)
Multnomah County Carbon Emissions Report (PDF) [23] (2019)

Washington climate resources

Gov. Jay Inslee’s Climate Plan [24]
Washington Integrated Response to Climate Change (PDF) [25] (2012)
Washington Department of Ecology: Greenhouse Gas Emissions [26]
Washington Department of Ecology: Climate Change [27]
Washington Department of Health: Environmental Health Data [28]
Washington Department of Commerce: Climate Change [29] (Planning for Climate Change, 2008, and Greenhouse Gas Analysis Tools, 2009)

Academia & NGOs

University of Washington’s (UW) Climate Impacts Group [30] (CIG)
UW/CIG State of Knowledge Report [31] (2013)
UW/CIG Tribal Vulnerability [32] Assessment
UW Climate Change & Agriculture (PDF) [33]
UW Center for Health & the Global Environment [34]
UW Program on Climate Change [35]

City of Seattle & King County

Sustainability Office [36]
Climate Preparedness (PDF) [37]
Seattle Public Utilities Climate Change Program [38]
Seattle Public Utilities Sea Level Rise map [39]
Seattle Public Utilities Adaptation [40]
King County Climate Action Plan [41] (2015)

Province of British Columbia climate resources

B.C. Climate Change [42]
B.C. Climate Risk Assessment (PDF) [43] (2019)
CleanBC Action Plan (PDF) [44] (2018)
B.C. Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF) [45] (2018)
B.C. Climate Adaptation Strategy [46]
B.C. Climate Adaptation and Risk Assessment (PDF) [43] (2019)

Academia & NGOs

University of British Columbia (UBC) Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis [47]
UBC Victoria Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre [48]
David Suzuki Foundation [49]

City of Vancouver

Green Vancouver [50]
Climate Adaptation Strategy (PDF) [51] (2018)

Pacific Northwest climate resources

The Georgetown Climate Center [52]’s state-by-state [53] climate change planning
UW Climate Change’s Adaptation Science Center [54]
Sightline Institute’s Climate & Energy [55]
North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies [56]’ state climate thumbnails
The 2100 Project’s Atlas for the Green New Deal [57] from the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, with maps of land, resources and vulnerabilities
U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment Northwest [58] (2018)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s NW Climate Impacts [59] (2017)
Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange Northwest [60]
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northwest Climate Hub [61]
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Climate Change in the Northwest [62] (2019)
U.S. Forest Service’s Climate Change in the Pacific NW [63]
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC) at Oregon State University’s NW Climate Toolbox [64]
CIRC’s Integrated Scenarios of the Future NW [65] Environment
CIRC’s Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook (PDF) [66] (2018)
Pacific NW Tribal Climate Change Network [67] at University of Oregon
Forest Mortality, Economics and Climate Change [68] in North America (USDA & National Institute for Food & Agriculture at Oregon State University)
Future of the NW [69] in maps (UW)
Wildfires and Forests [70] in maps (UW)
Pacific NW National Lab [71]
North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s Planning Atlas [72], regional [73] projects, Oregon [74] projects, Washington [75] projects and British Columbia [76] projects
Climate Solutions [77]