Addressing Climate Change in the Chesapeake Bay: Federal Stepdown

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with other Federal agencies and other Chesapeake Bay Program partners to identify strategies and actions to address climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

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in the Chesapeake Bay. The following are the Service’s climate change and mitigation strategy commitments to the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.

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Nest of with eight American black duck chicks
We work with landowners, private and community organizations, government agencies and others to conserve, protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Chesapeake Bay area including Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Our conservation priorities include: endangered, threatened and at-...
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