NOAA unveils Arctic Action Plan
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has unveiled its Arctic Action Plan in a bid to help improve monitoring, understanding and protection of the vast, valuable, and vulnerable region.
Climate change is making the Arctic a greener, warmer and increasingly accessible place for economic opportunity, but climate impacts such as sea ice loss and rising ocean acidification are straining coastal community resilience and resource stewardship, says the NOAA.
The Administration’s science, service and stewardship mission means it provide State of Alaska and Alaska Native partners, industry and community stakeholders, and local officials with Arctic environmental intelligence to help them plan for and adapt to economic and ecological impacts, including disasters.
NOAA says the Action Plan will provide an integrated overview of its diverse Arctic programmes and how these missions, products and services support the goals set forth in President Obama’s National Strategy for the region.
It also provides linkages to other agency and interagency plans to include the National Ocean Polocy, the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Five Year Research Plan, NOAA’s Arctic Vision and Strategy, and more.
The plan also contains an appendix listing more than 80 actions that NOAA will take in 2014 and 2015 to support Arctic-related missions and mandates to further our scientific understanding of the region.
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