Our Climate and Ocean are Changing

The primary impact of climate/ocean change is to undermine ability of habitat to support fish and wildlife

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Reduced fall flowsChanging Ocean Currents

THE MARINE IMPACTSINFRASTRUCTURE SHELL

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FOOD WEBS

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MORTALITY

INFRASTRUCTURE INVADERS RANGE SHIFTS

FRAGMENTATION ACUTE MORTALITY

The Inland Impacts

Good habitat is the foundation of healthy fish and wildlife populations

We need to ensure the use of the resource is scaled appropriately to avoid negative impacts to long term conservation

ODFW Actions• Research & Monitoring

• Conservation Planning

• Habitat Prioritization

• Fisheries Management

• Strategic plan-focal team

• Infrastructure improvement

• Interagency Coordination

Trask Hatchery

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AP Photo/Andrew Selsky

“…agencies shall consider and

integrate climate change,

climate change impacts, and

the state’s GHG emissions

reduction goals into their

planning, budgets, investments,

and policy making decisions."

-ODFW’s response:

Draft Climate and Ocean Change policy lays out a consistent

framework by which the agency will integrate climate change,

climate change impacts, and ghg reduction in to planning,

budgets, investments, and policy making decisions.

The Draft Policy

Purpose

Key Expectations

Goals

Implementation

Statewide Coordination

Key Principles

Purpose

Statement of the Commission’s understanding about the changing climate and ocean

Ensure that the Department prepares for and responds appropriately to the impacts of a changing climate and ocean on fish, wildlife, and their use and enjoyment by current and future Oregonians.

Key Expectations

• Summarizes key information:

Oregon Climate Change Research Institute’s 4th Oregon Climate Assessment Report

National Climate Assessment

• Establishes connections from global climate system to impacts on fish and wildlife

Mote, P.W., J. Abatzoglou, K.D. Dello, K. Hegewisch, and D.E. Rupp, 2019: Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report. Oregon Climate Change Research Institute. occri.net/ocar4.USGCRP, 2018: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II [Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 1515 pp. doi: 10.7930/NCA4.2018.

Goals

1. Understand and act on risks and opportunities associated with changing climate and

ocean conditions

2. Provide leadership toward a coordinated statewide and regional response

3. Increase public awareness

4. Reduce the Department’s carbon footprint to the extent practicable, with the goal

reaching carbon neutrality.

Implementation

1. Coordinate a long term state-wide response

2. Incorporate Key Principles in Department science

3. Incorporate Key Principles in new or revised plans or policies

4. Apply Key Principles in consulting, regulatory, or advisory roles

5. Carbon reduction plan

6. Communications strategy

Statewide Coordination

• Coordinated inventories and vulnerability assessment

• Efficient research and monitoring

• Determine clear priorities within and across geographical areas

• Implement priorities

• Work with the public and landowners

Key Principles: Coordination

1. Collaborate widely

2. Collaborate with diverse organizations

Timeline to date

Public meetings

Commission Informational

Continued engagement

Commission Workshop

Commission consideration

Late 2019

January 17

Jan-now

June 12

Today

Staff Recommendation

Adopt the Climate and Ocean Change Policy as drafted in Attachment #3, Addendum #1.