(1) Oil & Gas
(2) Energy Supply and Demand
(3) Transportation/Land Use
(4) Forestry, Agriculture, Waste
(5) Cross-Cutting, including Residential/Government-lead actions.
The Adaptation Work Groups are focusing on areas such as how to design and/or prepare for the future and address impacts of climate change as it relates to:
(1) infrastructure
(2) human health and culture
(3) ecosystems and the economies that depend on them
(4) new shipping routes in the north
A Research Needs Work Group has also been formed to identify research gaps and needs. The goal is to develop a final product from the Advisory Groups to the Sub-cabinet which, in turn, will evaluate the recommendations and submit a Climate Change Strategy to the Governor by spring 2010. Information on the Sub-cabinet and Work groups can be found by visiting http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/.
While the Sub-cabinet is looking comprehensively at climate related impacts throughout
(1) assessing the short and long-term impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife and habitat
(2) determining data deficiencies and set research priorities to help us understand these impacts
(3) identifying science-based management strategies for adaptation to a changing climate
(4) providing input to ADF&G leadership and the Governor’s Sub-cabinet on climate change impacts.