Climate change is here. Climate impact assessments seek to understand how climate change is impacting our lives, our communities, and our economies.

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While national climate assessments, like this one in the United States, cover general trends and high-level impacts, most policy- and decision-makers act on a local, regional, or state level where these general trends may not be provided at sufficient spatial or temporal scales.

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Subnational climate assessments address this data-policy mismatch and often work directly with key stakeholders across a state or region to identify their direct needs before writing the impact assessments.

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At the University of Vermont's Climate Measurements Center of Excellence (CMeC), we're investigating how subnational climate assessments are completed from start to finish to identify the processes and tools that can help every state or region across the United States conduct their own assessments and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

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To learn more about this project, you can visit the CMeC website. To learn more about the latest iteration of the Vermont Climate Assessment, where we're piloting some of the best practices and tools being used in subnational climate assessments across the country, you can visit this website.