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Climate Change

USDA contributes to climate assessments, analysis of adaptation and mitigation options, cost-benefit analyses, and tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities.
USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems. USDA contributes to climate assessments, analysis of adaptation and mitigation options, cost-benefit analyses, and tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities.

The Climate Change Program Office (CCPO) operates within the Office of Energy and Environmental Policy (OEEP) to coordinate agricultural, rural, and forestry-related climate change program and policy issues across USDA. CCPO ensures that USDA is a source of objective, analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed response strategies. This website provides information, reports, and data related to USDA’s analysis of these topics.

Critical Resources

Climate Change Science Seminar Series

A year-long monthly series of climate change science seminars have been developed by USDA’s Office of Energy and Environmental Policy and the USDA Agriculture, Forestry, and Climate Science Working Group.
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Climate Science and Effects

Science assessments provide the state of a science for climate effects in agricultural, forested, and rural systems. They are written by diverse teams of multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral experts.
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Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Assessment Program

USDA’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Assessment Program, managed by OCE, maintains state-of-the-science metrics of greenhouse gas sources and sinks from lands and links these metrics to Department-wide efforts to mitigate climate change.
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La ciencia del clima y sus efectos

Las evaluaciones científicas proporcionan información sobre el estado de la ciencia en relación con los efectos del clima en los sistemas agrícolas, forestales y rurales. Están redactadas por equipos diversos de expertos multidisciplinarios y multisectoriales.
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Programa de inventario y evaluación de gases de efecto invernadero

El Programa de Evaluación e Inventario de Gases de Efecto Invernadero del USDA, administrado por OCE, mantiene métricas de última generación de las fuentes y sumideros de gases de efecto invernadero de las tierras y vincula estas métricas con los esfuerzos de todo el Departamento para mitigar el cambio climático.
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