Climate Change
USDA contributes to climate assessments, analysis of adaptation and mitigation options, cost-benefit analyses, and tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities.
USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems. USDA contributes to climate assessments, analysis of adaptation and mitigation options, cost-benefit analyses, and tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities.
The Climate Change Program Office (CCPO) operates within the Office of Energy and Environmental Policy (OEEP) to coordinate agricultural, rural, and forestry-related climate change program and policy issues across USDA. CCPO ensures that USDA is a source of objective, analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed response strategies. This website provides information, reports, and data related to USDA’s analysis of these topics.
Critical Resources
A year-long monthly series of climate change science seminars have been developed by USDA’s Office of Energy and Environmental Policy and the USDA Agriculture, Forestry, and Climate Science Working Group.
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Science assessments provide the state of a science for climate effects in agricultural, forested, and rural systems. They are written by diverse teams of multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral experts.
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USDA’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Assessment Program, managed by OCE, maintains state-of-the-science metrics of greenhouse gas sources and sinks from lands and links these metrics to Department-wide efforts to mitigate climate change.
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USDA Climate Hubs
The Climate Change Program Office (CCPO) ensures that USDA is a source of objective, analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed response strategies. This website provides information, reports, and data related to USDA’s analysis of these topics.
