Climate Change Response Strategy

The National Park Service Climate Change Response Strategy 2023 Update provides an integrated framework to address the challenge of climate change across the National Park System. The Strategy outlines goals and objectives across four cornerstones: Understand the science, Adapt to changing conditions, Mitigate the cause, and Communicate about the issue. The Climate Change Response Strategy 2023 Update is anchored in both Congressional law and agency policy that directs the work of the National Park Service. The 2023 Update is—in turn—the foundation upon which additional guidance has been developed to address climate change throughout the work of the agency.