Implementing Instructions for Agency Climate Change Adaptation Planning

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are working in partnership to further Federal sustainability targets and other management goals.  This includes ensuring that Federal agencies are planning so they can address the impacts of climate change on their operations and assets.

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ADAPTATION FINAL IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTIONS 3_3.pdf

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Rationale:Chronic exposure to ambient air-borne particulate matter of <2.5 µm (PM2.5) increases cardiovascular risk. The mechanisms by which inhaled ambient particles are sensed and how these effects are systemically transduced remain elusive.

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Background— In controlled human exposure studies, diesel engine exhaust inhalation impairs vascular function and enhances thrombus formation. The aim of the present study was to establish whether an exhaust particle trap could prevent these adverse cardiovascular effects in men.

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Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity.

This research brief summarizes work with Southern California's Inland Empire Utilities Agency to help it identify climate-change vulnerabilities in its long-term water plans and evaluate its most effective options for managing those risks.

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of Darfur. It drives instability, conflict and collapse, but also expansion and reorganisation. The ways cultures have met the climate challenge provide object lessons for how the modern world can handle the new security threats posed by unprecedented global warming.

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