Climate change adaptation : information on selected federal efforts to adapt to a changing climate (GAO-10-114SP, October 7, 2009), an e-supplement to GAO-10-113 / U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy--United States.

Climatic changes.

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Government policy--United States.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Information on selected federal efforts to adapt to a changing climate (GAO-10-114SP, October 7, 2009), an e-supplement to GAO-10-113

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]

Summary:

We obtained information from 13 selected federal departments and agencies on their current and planned climate change adaptation efforts as part of a broader review of climate change adaptation (see GAO-10-113). We present this information to provide a more complete picture of the activities that federal agencies consider to be related to climate change adaptation than has been available publicly. We obtained this information directly from the agencies participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Importantly, we did not modify the content of the agency submissions (except to remove references to named individuals) or assess its validity. In addition, because this information represents the efforts of a selected group of federal agencies, the agency activities compiled in this report should not be considered a comprehensive list of all recent and ongoing climate change adaptation efforts across the federal government. A more detailed discussion of our scope and methodology is contained in our report Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic Federal Planning Could Help Government Officials Make More Informed Decisions, GAO-10-113. We conducted this performance audit from September 2008 to October 2009 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.

Notes:

Title from p.1 screen (GAO, viewed Oct. 25, 2009).

"October 7, 2009"--List of GAO reports.

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-10-114SP."

OCLC:

459176050