Chesapeake Bay Climate Resiliency Workgroup Analysis & Implementation
This document outlines the goals and objectives of the Chesapeake Bay Climate Resiliency Workgroup, focusing on increasing the resiliency of the watershed to changing environmental and climate conditions. It includes strategies for monitoring, assessment, adaptation, and project goals to enhance the Bay's ecosystem and communities. The General Approach section highlights the tailored framework for incorporating climate change vulnerabilities into management strategies. Protected Lands Goal aims to protect additional lands by 2025. The CCAP Design Tool is mentioned for applying Climate Smart principles.
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CBP CLIMATE RESILIENCY WORKGROUP Cross-Goal Climate Resiliency Analysis and Decision-Making Matrix and Implementation Methodology
Climate Resiliency Goal GOAL: GOAL: Increase the resiliency of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including its living resources, habitats, public infrastructure and communities, to withstand adverse impacts from changing environmental and climate conditions. Monitoring and Assessment Outcome: Monitoring and Assessment Outcome: Continually monitor and assess the trends and likely impacts of changing climatic and sea level conditions on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, including the effectiveness of restoration and protection policies, programs and projects. Adaptation Outcome: Adaptation Outcome: Continually pursue, design and construct restoration and protection projects to enhance the resiliency of Bay and aquatic ecosystems from the impacts of coastal erosion, coastal flooding, more intense and more frequent storms and sea level rise.
Project Goals Advance outcomes from the Chesapeake Bay Agreement with regard to climate change goals Develop a structured, science-based framework through which the principles of climate-smart adaptation planning can be effectively applied to the existing 29 management strategies in the Watershed Agreement Engage one-on-one with GITs to identify, assess, evaluate and revise climate-related elements of individual management strategies
General Approach Tailor the concepts of Climate Smart Conservation Framework to incorporate consideration of climate change vulnerabilities into planned Chesapeake Bay management strategies and restoration actions Utilize CCAP Adaptation Design Tool and framework as a starting point Use 2 workgroups as pilots to develop the approach: Wetlands Protected lands Facilitate a structured approach (e.g., modified SDM) in a set of workshops to work through the process with each pilot workgroup
Protected Lands Goal/Outcome By 2025, protect an additional two million acres of lands throughout the watershed currently identified as high conservation priorities at the federal, state or local level including 225,000 acres of wetlands and 695,000 acres of forest land of highest value for maintaining water quality.
CCAP Design Tool Developed to apply Climate Smart principles to coral reef adaptation plans, but highly applicable for incorporating climate change vulnerability considerations into Chesapeake Bay management strategies A structured approach, using a series of three related matrices that guide managers/ stakeholders through the process Focuses on developing climate-smart design considerations, two categories of questions related to how climate change is likely to: impact both the stressors being managed by an action; and the effectiveness of the action itself
Next Steps: Solicit and Identify core steering group members Work with core steering group to: Clarify the management/restoration actions of importance Identify and gather relevant Chesapeake Bay climate change vulnerability research/data Compile strategies, actions, restoration/enhancement techniques that are envisioned to achieve the goal/outcome
Project Timeline 2016 2017 Task # Activity/Deliverable May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 1 Conduct literature review 2 Compile existing climate change vulnerability research and data 3 Create Climate Resiliency Analysis and Decision-Making Matrix 4 Prepare and design workshop 5 Conduct pre-workshop calls 6 Conduct first set of facilitated, in-person workshops 7 Prioritize and collect data and information to fill critical gaps 8 Conduct pre-workshop calls 9 Conduct second set of facilitated, in-person workshops 10 Produce synthesis and results write-up
Project Contacts: Zoe Johnson, CBP Technical Lead Susan Julius, EPA Technical Lead Anna Hamilton, Tetra Tech, Project Manager Jennie Hoffman, Facilitator Hope Herron, Tetra Tech, Facilitator
