Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems

The document proposes a comprehensive approach to climate management in the Great Lakes Region consisting of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating direct human pressures on the environment to increase ecosystem resilience, and planning for inevitable future climate impacts due to the long-term persistence of atmospheric emissions.

• The document advocates for a three-part strategy to manage climate change: reducing emissions to avoid the worst impacts, eliminating other direct human pressures on the environment to improve ecosystem resilience and human health, and planning for future climate changes that will occur even if emissions are minimized.
• Reducing direct human pressures on the environment is expected to provide long-term benefits including safer water supplies, improved productivity in forestry and agriculture, and enhanced environmental protection and recreation.
• Future climate change is considered inevitable because greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to increase for several more decades due to the long atmospheric lifespan of these gases and the difficulty of rapidly transforming the economy and society.

APA

Union of Concerned Scientists (2014). Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-solutions

Chicago

Union of Concerned Scientists. Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. 2014. https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-solutions.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{unionofconcernedscientists2014technical, author = {{Union of Concerned Scientists}}, title = {{Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems}}, institution = {Union of Concerned Scientists}, year = {2014}, month = jun, url = {https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-solutions}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }