Recommendations for incorporating invasive species into U.S. climate change adaptation planning and policy
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Executive Order No. 14008 mandated that U.S. federal agencies and departments develop Climate Change Adaptation Plans to enhance the nation's resilience to climate change. Invasive species are documented to reduce the effectiveness of climate adaptation and mitigation actions. In spite of this, only eight of the 26 federal plans directly reference invasive species, and just four meaningfully consider the reciprocal impact of invasive species on climate adaptation efforts. To ensure that climate adaptation planning and processes are effective with associated benefits for biodiversity conservation, a gap analysis of the Climate Change Adaptation Plans was conducted. Five key recommendations were developed that would transform how invasive species are considered within them. Examples of how invasive species have been included in some of the plans are provided, with suggestions for agencies that did not include invasive species on how they might do so, to illustrate that dedicated efforts in prevention, detection, and management of invasive species can safeguard carbon sequestration, protect communities and infrastructure, and minimize economic and biodiversity losses. Although developed based on U.S. federal plans, these recommendations can be used by state and local, as well as international, jurisdictions tasked with implementing climate‐adaptive policies to build resilience across multiple sectors.
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.13210
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,040
Funders: U.S. Department of Defense, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Justice, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Social Security Administration, North Carolina Pork Council, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
OpenAlex ID: W4401473306