As part of our special report “Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor,” a joint project between InvestigateWest and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ SEJournal, we’ve collected a wide range of resources to help reporters track down climate stories throughout the Pacific Northwest. You’ll find an array of government, academic and nongovernmental organization links for Oregon, including Portland; Washington, including Seattle; and British Columbia, including Vancouver, as well as from regional, national and international resources.
Oregon climate resources
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Workers install the last panel in the Baldock Solar Station, a 1.75-megawatt solar array on I-5, 14 miles south of Portland, in November 2011.
Oregon Global Warming Commission’s Keep Oregon Cool plan (2018)
- Oregon Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data (2018)
- Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Framework (PDF) (2010)
- Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Planning
- Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Climate Change Resources
- Oregon Health Authority’s Climate Change and Public Health (PDF) (2018)
- Oregon Health Authority’s Climate & Health Resilience Plan (2017)
- Oregon Department of Energy: Addressing Climate Change
- Oregon Department of Transportation: Transportation & Climate Change
- Oregon’s Clean Fuel Standards
- Oregon’s Energy Facilities Siting project
- Oregon’s Coastal Atlas (2017)
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Academia & Nongovernmental Organizations
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- Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) at Oregon State University
- OCCRI’s Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report (2019)
- Oregon Climate Trust (focused on greenhouse gas mitigation)
City of Portland & Multnomah County
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- Climate Action Plan
- 2019-2050 Climate Policy Commitments Next Steps
- Carbon Emissions & Trends (2017)
- Multnomah County Carbon Emissions Report (PDF) (2019)
Washington climate resources
Southern resident killer whales on Feb. 25, 2015. Puget Sound’s killer whales face extinction mainly due to dwindling numbers of their main food source, Chinook salmon. Toxic waters, too-close vessels and noise pollution number among other threats.
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- Gov. Jay Inslee’s Climate Plan
- Washington Integrated Response to Climate Change (PDF) (2012)
- Washington Department of Ecology: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Washington Department of Ecology: Climate Change
- Washington Department of Health: Environmental Health Data
- Washington Department of Commerce: Climate Change (Planning for Climate Change, 2008, and Greenhouse Gas Analysis Tools, 2009)
Academia & NGOs
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- University of Washington’s (UW) Climate Impacts Group (CIG)
- UW/CIG State of Knowledge Report (2013)
- UW/CIG Tribal Vulnerability Assessment
- UW Climate Change & Agriculture (PDF)
- UW Center for Health & the Global Environment
- UW Program on Climate Change
City of Seattle & King County
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- Seattle Public Utilities Climate Change Program
- Seattle Public Utilities Sea Level Rise map
- Seattle Public Utilities Adaptation
- King County Climate Action Plan (2015)
Province of British Columbia climate resources
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Park visitors wade through water and walk along the railing at Jericho Beach Park Pier in Vancouver, B.C., due to a king tide flooding the walkway of the pier. These higher-than-normal tides offer a glimpse at future sea levels, as Vancouver makes design choices to protect the city and its residents.
B.C. Climate Change
- B.C. Climate Risk Assessment (PDF) (2019)
- CleanBC Action Plan (PDF) (2018)
- B.C. Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF) (2018)
- B.C. Climate Adaptation Strategy
- B.C. Climate Adaptation and Risk Assessment (PDF) (2019)
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Academia & NGOs
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- University of British Columbia (UBC) Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis
- UBC Victoria Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre
- David Suzuki Foundation
City of Vancouver
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- Green Vancouver
- Climate Adaptation Strategy (PDF) (2018)
Pacific Northwest climate resources
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The “Covering the Climate” series focuses on the so-called “Emerald Corridor,” which runs south from Vancouver, B.C., through Washington to the Willamette Valley around Portland. (Credit: Google Maps)
The Georgetown Climate Center’s state-by-state climate change planning
- UW Climate Change’s Adaptation Science Center
- Sightline Institute’s Climate & Energy
- North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies’ state climate thumbnails
- The 2100 Project’s Atlas for the Green New Deal from the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, with maps of land, resources and vulnerabilities
- U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment Northwest (2018)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s NW Climate Impacts (2017)
- Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange Northwest
- U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northwest Climate Hub
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Climate Change in the Northwest (2019)
- U.S. Forest Service’s Climate Change in the Pacific NW
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC) at Oregon State University’s NW Climate Toolbox
- CIRC’s Integrated Scenarios of the Future NW Environment
- CIRC’s Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook (PDF) (2018)
- Pacific NW Tribal Climate Change Network at University of Oregon
- Forest Mortality, Economics and Climate Change in North America (USDA & National Institute for Food & Agriculture at Oregon State University)
- Future of the NW in maps (UW)
- Wildfires and Forests in maps (UW)
- Pacific NW National Lab
- North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s Planning Atlas, regional projects, Oregon projects, Washington projects and British Columbia projects
- Climate Solutions
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U.S. climate resources
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- Archive of EPA’s removed Website on Climate Change
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration: Global Climate Change
- National Center for Atmospheric Research: Climate
- NOAA: Climate
- National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly the National Climatic Data Center)
- NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Events 1980-2019
- U.S. Global Change Research Program
- U.S. Geological Survey climate maps & data
International climate resources
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- United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- IPCC special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere (2019)
- IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land (2019)
- IPCC update to 2006 Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- IPCC report on global warming of 1.5 degrees (2018)
U.S. climate news aggregators
Northwest
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- Columbia Insight (sign up)
- Sightline Daily (sustainability newsletter sign up)
West
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- High Country News (subscribe)
- Stanford University Woods Institute’s People&Planet (sign up)
National climate newsletters
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- Anthropocene
- Gizmodo’s Earther (sign up)
- Edge Effects (sign up)
- Heated (sign up)
- InsideClimate News (multiple newsletter sign up)
- Newswise Climate for journalists (resources, RSS feed)
- The New York Times Climate (Climate Fwd: newsletter signup)
- Our Daily Planet (sign up)
- Yale Environment 360 (sign up)
National energy newsletters
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- Axios Generate (sign up)
- Politico Morning Energy (sign up)
- Washington Post The Energy 202 (sign up)
