Strategic Response to Climate Change
Secretarial Order No. 3289: Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on America’s Water, Land, and Other Natural and Cultural Resources
With his signing of Secretarial Order No. 3289 on Sept. 14, 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a climate-change-response strategy large and bold enough for us to meet these challenges. His order provides us with the framework to coordinate efforts among our Interior bureaus and to integrate our science and management expertise with that of our partners.
Two initiatives – DOI Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – form the cornerstones of this integrated approach to climate-change science and adaptation. Each has a distinct science and resource-management role but also shares complementary capacities and capabilities. This strategy will serve the Department’s land, fish, wildlife, water, marine, tribal, and cultural heritage managers, as well as for our federal, state, local, Tribal, NGO, private landowner, and other stakeholder partners.
On June 3, 2011, as required by the Federal Agency Climate Change Adaptation Planning Implementing Instructions, the Department also released a statement reiterating our continued commitment to addressing the impacts climate change may have on our operations and assets through adaptation planning.
- Download Secretarial Order No. 3289 Establishing Interior's Climate-Change Response Strategy
- Download Action Memorandum regarding Interior's Climate Change Adaptation Plan (text-PDF)
- Download Interior's Plan for a Coordinated, Science-Based Response to Climate Change Impacts on Our Lands, Water, and Wildlife Resources