The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts will contribute climate data informing the work of a state task force charged with advising Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
In October, Evers established the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change in an effort to better understand the impacts of climate change on Wisconsin.
Chaired by Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the task force brings together state agencies and legislators, tribes, business leaders, and economic and conservation organizations from across the state — including WICCI, which is led by the UW–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
WICCI was created in 2007 to produce and share information that can limit vulnerability to climate change in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. That trove of impartial scientific data and research will be available to task force members, who have asked WICCI to focus on updating and reissuing its 2011 climate assessment report, Wisconsin’s Changing Climate.
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