Climate Change

Quick Links to the topics on this page:

• Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Scorecard Element 10
• Peer Learning Webinars
• LEED Certification
• Letters From Leadership
• Presentations
• Reports
• Articles
• Climate Change Teams
• Contacts

Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Learn about the Forest Service’s partnership with the EPA Climate Leaders program and its agency-wide inventory of greenhouse emissions based on a quality management system.

• Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Greenhouse Gases 101: Understanding GHG Reduction and Climate Change

Scorecard Element 10

• Scorecard Element 10: Frequently Asked Questions (docx)
• Scorecard Element 10: Sustainable Operations (pptx)
  • 02/16/2011 Presenation by Leslie Brandt, Katie Newcomb, and Lara Polansky
• Scorecard Element 10 Team Charter
• Element 10 Team Briefing for Western Collective Board
• Top 10 Collective Actions Cost-Savings
• Sustainable Operations Training Opportunities List

Peer Learning Webinars

Help your Unit “Get to YES” on Element 10 (“Sustainable Operations”) of the Climate Change Performance Scorecard.

The target audience for these webinars includes Climate Change Unit Coordinators, Forest Green Team members, Forest Energy Managers, Forest Engineers, and others with an interest in, or passion for, “greening” Agency business operations. 

• Peer Learning Webinar Schedule
• Peer Learning Session Transcript - Nov. 2, 2011
  • Webinar Recording: Overview of Element 10
• Peer Learning Session - Dec. 7, 2011
  • Session Announcement
• Webinar #1: Element 10 Overview
  • Recording - Oct. 5, 2011
    • (Windows Media Player version (the 2nd choice) is recommended, as the quality is better.) The replay will be available until October 27, 2012.
  • Transcript - Nov. 2, 2011
• Webinar #2: The Low Hanging Fruit
  • Recording - Dec. 7, 2011
  • Transcript- Dec. 7, 2011
• Webinar #3: Tools and Data Sources
  • Recording - Jan. 4, 2012
  • Transcript - Jan. 4, 2012
• Webinar #4: Green Purchasing
  • Recording - Feb. 1, 2012
  • Transcript - Feb. 1, 2012 (link will be available soon)

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system,  providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO₂ emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

• Forest Service LEED Certified Buidings

Letters From Leadership

• Climate Change Performance Scorecard
• 3/13/2009 Strategic Framework Response to Climate Change - Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team [RTF]
• Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team Charter [PDF]
• Climate Change Monitoring Team Charter [PDF]
• Archive of previous correspondence

Presentations

• Monitoring for Climate Change [pdf]
• Executive Order 13514 and Emerging Federal Framework for GHG Management
• Adaptation for Climate Change on the Olympic National Forest [pdf]
  • Olympic NF - Thursday, April 2, 2009, 1100 - 1215

Reports

• 3/19/2009 Status Report Activities Implementing the Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change [PDF]
• Is the Forest Service a Carbon Source or a Carbon Sink? [PDF, 2 pages]
• Meeting EO13423 and Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 Goals by 2015 And Employing an Agency-wide Culture of Sustainable Practices by 2020 [PDF, 17 pages, 189 kb]

Articles

• 2/25/08 The New Yorker - Big Foot: In Measuring Carbon Emissions, It's Easy to Confuse Morality and Science
• 12/28/2007 - Forest Service Joins EPA’s Climate Leaders Program

Climate Change Teams

Team Charters

• Climate Change Adaptation Priorities Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Alliances Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Education Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Mitigation Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Monitoring Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Science/Management Integration Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team [PDF]

Contacts

• Climate Change: Key Contacts in the Forest Service [PDF, 5 pages]
  Note: This is a working list of key contacts for persons seeking more information about Forest Service actions on climate change. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather a list of potential first points of contact for information-seekers who are not sure where to start within the agency. For each contact, there is a brief indication of their principal role in the Forest Service response to climate change.