Climate Change Attorney Blog
This week the Department of Interior announced the establishment of the second and third of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers(CSC). The Southeast CSC will be hosted at North Carolina State University and the the Northwest CSC will be a consortium of three universities–Oregon State University, University of Washington and the University of Idaho.
As noted in a press release announcing the two new centers it was stated in part that the centers: “will provide the science needed to understand which resources are most vulnerable to climate change and will work closely with natural and cultural resource managers faced with planning for those changes.”
The CSC program is part of what the Department of the Interior has termed a “Strategic Response to Climate Change.”