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Climate Action Plan

The fight against climate change requires broad mobilization, and Cooperative Extension stands poised to make a difference. How can we mobilize the U.S. Cooperative Extension system to quickly and effectively contribute to climate change solutions? This subgroup dives into how we can harness the strength of our network to swiftly and effectively implement solutions.

What climate programming is Extension doing right now?

With all the discussion about what Cooperative Extension is doing in the climate realm, here are the four resources that can tell that story:

1. National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets (NRCEPA) - Check the Climate and Extreme Weather Programs, [Extension Only]. This tool enables Cooperative Extension professionals to register their projects, programs, or curricula for nationwide collaboration among Cooperative Extension colleagues. The intent of this tool is to assist Extension professionals to quickly find other like-programming efforts across the system to reduce duplication of work and help speed up access to digital assets that would be useful to the development of new programs. Limitations: Some programs that could be considered climate are necessarily categorized under climate.

2. Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programming:
Successes, Challenges & Opportunities Publication, 2020, [Extension only] A team of Extension professionals conducted a national inventory of Extension programs to understand better the extent to which climate and extreme weather programs are being delivered and to characterize the nature of these programs. 43 Extension programs across 30 states that focus on climate and extreme weather were discovered. Limitations: Programs that could be considered climate by some accounts may not be included because they don't have climate in the title of the program.

3. The National Land-Grant Impacts Database (NIDB) is the nation’s most extensive repository of the land-grant system’s collective impacts statements in research, education, and Extension. It serves as a comprehensive and important resource for the land-grant system to tell their stories. Limitations: This database does not include 1994 land grant impacts. It also is not specific to Extension programs.
4. The University of Kentucky began an assessment of their own and recently updated the document that they created. Please see the document attached to this post. It is not comprehensive, but it more updated that the other sources. Many thanks to Lee Moser for this document and the Implementing a Climate Response working group who have been working on pulling together these data sources!

Are there any other collated resources that you know about? Please share below.

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