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United States Forest Service: National Roadmap
for Responding to Climate Change & Performance
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Studio
Guests:
Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor
to the Chief, United States Forest Service
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 Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
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 Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
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Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
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 Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
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Program Summary:
The EmeraldPlanet weekly television programs are broadcast and distributed via Channel 10 TV in Fairfax, Virginia USA. The programs are being simulcast to 532 stations around the United States and then overseas by the Internet and C-SPAN television. The EmeraldPlanet programs are currently available in all countries and territories around the world. The Emerald Trek and companion The Emerald Mini-Treks are identifying the 1,000 "best practices" on location from the 143 nations, 750 cities, and 50,000 communities by Internet TV, local television stations, main stream media outlets, YouTube, Facebook, The EmeraldPlanet Meetup, Twitter, among other social media networks, and all manner of print media.
The EmeraldPlanet TV is broadcasting weekly a number of the “best practices which are identified through collaboration with: major non-governmental organizations (NGOs); United Nations, universities and colleges; research institutes; government ministries and agencies; Embassies; banking and micro-lending organizations; Chambers of Commerce; World Trade Centers, international bodies such as The World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), citizens groups; multimedia organizations; among others by utilizing the most advanced broadcasting hardware and software along with an outstanding television Production Crew to reach an ever expanding global audience. The Emerald Trek is focused upon linking principals identified among the 1,000 'best practices' in the 143 nations being visited through this world-wide movement. The Emerald Trek is encompassing over 300,000 miles, visiting 750 major cities, and 50,000 suburban and rural communities in the identified nations.
This program features:
- Segment 1:
Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
- Segment 2: Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
- Segment 3:
Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
- Segment 4:
Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service
Our professional expert will cover the topics of:
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Segment 1: "United States Forest Service Research and History on Climate Change"
- Segment 2: "Action and Projects Dealing with National and Local Climate Change Issues"
- Segment 3: "The Climate Change Tool Box' and Performance Scorecard for Implementing the Forest Service Climate Change Strategy"
- Segment 4: "Adjusting to Climate Change and Opportunities for the Private Land Owner
The National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change addresses the many benefits the United States receives from forests and grasslands - provisioning services such as water, wood, and wild foods; regulating services such as erosion, flood, and climate control; and cultural services such as outdoor recreation, spiritual renewal, and aesthetic enjoyment - are threatened by climate change.
United States Forest Service Chief Thomas L. (Tom) Tidwell, in a message to all employees, emphasized that every program and unit in the Forest Service has a role to play in responding to climate change. The new USDA Strategic Plan for 2010-2015 sets a departmental goal to “Ensure our national forests and private working lands are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing national water resources.”
To guide the Forest Service in achieving this goal, we have Developed is the Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change as a guide for the Forest Service in achieving these goals. All national forests are to come into compliance with a climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy as a measure of this goal. The Roadmap integrates land management, outreach, and sustainable operations accounting. It focuses on five kinds of activities: assessing current risks, vulnerabilities, policies, and gaps in knowledge; engaging government and private partners in seeking solutions; learning from while educating the general public; proactively engaging Service employees on climate change issues; managing for resilience in ecosystems as well as in human communities through adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable consumption strategies.
The Forest Service has implemented Performance Scorecard for Implementing the Forest Service Climate Change Strategy to measure progress towards its goals. The Scorecard includes measures of progress made by each national forest and grassland, supported by regional offices, stations, and national programs. The Scorecard addresses agency capacity (training and program guidance); partnerships (alliances that are integrating science and management); adaptation (assessing and monitoring key resource vulnerabilities and priorities); then mitigation (assessing and managing carbon stocks and flows reducing the nation's environmental footprint).
The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) of the Forest Service provides information and tools to land managers to address climate change in project planning and implementation. The CCRC offers educational information, decision-support models, maps, simulations, case studies, and toolkits available for employees within the department and its cooperating partners within the general public, businesses, and private landowners.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the
average global temperature has risen by 0.74 degrees Celsius between 1906 and 2005, with high confidence that some percent of this is due to anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases. As result, changes in precipitation, dates of first frost, and dates of snow melt are occurring at different times, locations, and intensity around the world at dates not seen millennium.
The frequency of heavy precipitation events and heat waves are increasing at dramatic rates. Forests in the United States and around the globe are experiencing a range of impacts, including increased size and severity of fires, insect infestations and disease, invasive species from other climatic zones, and tree mortality. As the climate continues to warm these changes will intensify due to the direct effects from climate change and the amplification of existing stressors. Such severe impacts are having profound impacts on the lives of every citizen here and abroad. Our expert guest is Dr. David Cleaves, Climate Change Advisor to the Chief, United States Forest Service. Dr. Cleaves has worked for the Forest Service for more than 20 years. In March 2010 he was selected by Chief Thomas (Tom) L. Tidwell to be the Climate Change Advisor. In this role Dr. Cleaves serves the Agency Chief, executive leadership, and employees in the field by coordinating activities related to climate change. He is the primary spokesperson for the agency on climate change and leads the implementation of the Forest Service's nationwide strategy for weaving climate change response into policies, processes, and partnerships.
Dr. Cleaves was formerly the Associate Deputy Chief of Forest Service Research & Development, the agency's science and technology program. He has also been the Director of the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Staff Director for national research programs in economics, forest products, social science, recreation and tourism, urban forestry, science education, and the Resources Planning Act assessment. Additionally, he led the agency's research and development programs in fire behavior and prediction, fuels management, planning and economics, and human dimensions.
His specialty is decision science and risk analysis. He was formerly the national decision science specialist in the Forest Service where he developed methods and tools for improving environmental analysis and decision processes. Prior to his career in the Forest Service, he was a professor of forest marketing and economics at Oregon State University. Dr. Cleaves has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and a Masters of Science (M.S.) from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University.
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