A Source Toolbox for Climate Change Reporting in the Emerald Corridor

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,” a joint project between journalism nonprofit InvestigateWest and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ SEJournal, 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 plan (2018)
• Oregon Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data (2018)
• Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Framework (PDF) (2010) 
• Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Planning
• Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Change Resources 
• Oregon Health Authority’s Climate Change and Public Health (PDF) (2018)
• Oregon Health Authority’s Climate & Health Resilience Plan (2017) 
• Oregon Department of Energy: Addressing Climate Change 
• Oregon Department of Transportation: Transportation & Climate Change
• Oregon’s Clean Fuel Standards
• Oregon’s Energy Facilities Siting project
• Oregon’s Coastal Atlas (2017)

Academia & NGOs

• Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) at Oregon State University 
• OCCRI’s Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report (2019)
• Oregon Climate Trust (focused on greenhouse gas mitigation)

City of Portland & Multnomah County

• Climate Action Plan
• 2019-2050 Climate Policy Commitments Next Steps
• Carbon Emissions & Trends (2017)
• Multnomah County Carbon Emissions Report (PDF) (2019)

 

Washington climate resources

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

Academia & NGOs

• University of Washington’s (UW) Climate Impacts Group (CIG)
• UW/CIG State of Knowledge Report (2013)
• UW/CIG Tribal Vulnerability Assessment
• UW Climate Change & Agriculture (PDF)
• UW Center for Health & the Global Environment
• UW Program on Climate Change

City of Seattle & King County

• Sustainability Office
• Climate Preparedness (PDF)
• Seattle Public Utilities Climate Change Program
• Seattle Public Utilities Sea Level Rise map
• Seattle Public Utilities Adaptation
• King County Climate Action Plan (2015)

 

Province of British Columbia climate resources

• B.C. Climate Change
• B.C. Climate Risk Assessment (PDF) (2019)
• CleanBC Action Plan (PDF) (2018)
• B.C. Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF) (2018) 
• B.C. Climate Adaptation Strategy
• B.C. Climate Adaptation and Risk Assessment (PDF) (2019)

Academia & NGOs

• University of British Columbia (UBC) Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis
• UBC Victoria Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre
• David Suzuki Foundation

City of Vancouver 

• Green Vancouver
• Climate Adaptation Strategy (PDF) (2018)

 

Pacific Northwest climate resources 

• The Georgetown Climate Center’s state-by-state climate change planning
• UW Climate Change’s Adaptation Science Center 
• Sightline Institute’s Climate & Energy
• North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies’ state climate thumbnails 
• The 2100 Project’s Atlas for the Green New Deal 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 (2018)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s NW Climate Impacts (2017)
• Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange Northwest
• U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northwest Climate Hub
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Climate Change in the Northwest (2019)
• U.S. Forest Service’s Climate Change in the Pacific NW
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC) at Oregon State University’s NW Climate Toolbox
• CIRC’s Integrated Scenarios of the Future NW Environment
• CIRC’s Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook (PDF) (2018)
• Pacific NW Tribal Climate Change Network at University of Oregon
• Forest Mortality, Economics and Climate Change in North America (USDA & National Institute for Food & Agriculture at Oregon State University)
• Future of the NW in maps (UW)
• Wildfires and Forests in maps (UW)
• Pacific NW National Lab
• North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s Planning Atlas, regional projects, Oregon projects, Washington projects and British Columbia projects
• Climate Solutions

 

U.S. climate resources

• Archive of EPA’s removed Website on Climate Change
• National Aeronautics & Space Administration: Global Climate Change
• National Center for Atmospheric Research: Climate 
• NOAA: Climate
• National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly the National Climatic Data Center)
• NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Events 1980-2019 
• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• U.S. Geological Survey climate maps & data 

 

International climate resources

• United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• IPCC special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere (2019)
• IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land (2019)
• IPCC update to 2006 Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• IPCC report on global warming of 1.5 degrees (2018)

 

U.S. climate news aggregators

Northwest

• Columbia Insight (sign up)
• Sightline Daily (sustainability newsletter sign up) 

West

• High Country News (subscribe)
• Stanford University Woods Institute’s People&Planet (sign up)

National climate newsletters 

• Anthropocene
• Gizmodo's Earther (sign up)
• Edge Effects (sign up)
• Heated (sign up)
• InsideClimate News (multiple newsletter sign up) 
• Newswise Climate for journalists (resources, RSS feed)
• The New York Times Climate (Climate Fwd: newsletter signup)
• Our Daily Planet (sign up)
• Yale Environment 360 (sign up)

National energy newsletters 

• Axios Generate (sign up) 
• Politico Morning Energy (sign up)
• Washington Post The Energy 202 (sign up)

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