2021 Vermont Climate Assessment

The Vermont Climate Assessment (VCA) provides a framework for understanding climate change impacts in Vermont. It is written to help citizens and decision-makers make sense of climate data and prepare for future impacts across key sectors (for example, the Vermont Climate Council, which is working to reduce the state’s GHG emissions and identify actions Vermont communities can take to better prepare for more extreme weather). The VCA 2021 updates the University of Vermont’s pioneering state climate assessment in 2014, which was the first to provide state-level data similar to the National Climate Assessment.