Climate change threatens human health and well-being in the United States. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about this growing threat. This scientific assessment, called for under the President's Climate Action Plan, is a major report of the sustained National Climate Assessment (NCA) process. The report responds to the 1990 Congressional mandate to assist the Nation in understanding, assessing, predicting, and responding to human-induced and natural processes of global change. The...

El cambio climático es una amenaza para la salud y el bienestar de los seres humanos en los Estados Unidos. El Programa de los Estados Unidos de Investigación sobre el Cambio Mundial (USGCRP) llevó a cabo esta evaluación sobre el clima y la salud con la finalidad de entender esta creciente amenaza y de fundamentar las decisiones con respecto a ella. Esta evaluación científica, establecida de conformidad con el Plan de Acción del Presidente frente al cambio climático, es un informe muy importante acerca del proceso sostenido de Evaluación Nacional del Clima (NCA). El informe responde al mandato...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about the growing threat of climate change to the health and well-being of residents of the United States. This scientific assessment is part of the ongoing efforts of USGCRP's sustained National Climate Assessment (NCA) process and was called for under the President's Climate Action Plan. USGCRP agencies identified human health impacts as a high-priority topic for scientific assessment. This assessment was developed by a team of more than 100 experts...

Achieving food security for all people everywhere is a widely agreed upon international objective, most recently codified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. This report describes the potential effects of climate change on global food security and examines the implications of these effects for the United States.

This assessment report presents the results of the 2015 AMAP assessment of Methane as an Arctic climate forcer. it is the first AMAP assessment dealing with this issue and complements a second assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozoneas Arctic climate forcers.

This report was prepared as part of the United States National Climate Assessment and part of the President's Climate Action Plan (PCAP). USDA led the production of the report on behalf of the thirteen Federal Agencies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Thirty-one authors and contributors-- representing nineteen federal, academic, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental institutions in four countries-- prepared the report.. In response to the PCAP, this report integrates research from the biophysical and the social sciences across multiple sectors in order to evaluate climate-driven...

This assessment report presents the results of the 2015 AMAP Assessment of Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic climate forcers. This assessment complements a separate 2015 AMAP assessment of methane as an Arctic climate forcer.

Report of a workshop on June 23-24, 2014 organized under the auspices of the Scenarios and Interpretive Science Coordinating Group, U.S. Global Change Research Program, and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

This FY 2016 edition of Our Changing Planet, USGCRP's annual report, summarizes the Program's significant advancements toward achieving its scientific goals, delivering on its Congressional mandate, supporting the President's Climate Action Plan, and building a knowledge base that effectively informs human responses to global change. It includes an overview of the USGCRP research enterprise and recent highlights that demonstrate progress on the 2012–2021 Strategic Plan. The report also spotlights progress in interagency research priority areas that intersect with the Climate Action Plan, such...

This report, organized under the auspices of USGCRP's Adaptation Science Interagency Working Group, is a snapshot in time (2013-2014) of the status of climate change adaptation in Federal agencies that study and manage land and water resources.