Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) - ACCO Adaptation Working Group (Home Page)

We Need Your Help

We are asking you to respond to a short questionnaire, findings from which will be reviewed and published by the ACCO Adaptation Working Group.

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to take the 15-minute questionnaire.

ACCO Adaptation Working Group Co-Chairs:

Christine Baglin – Principal, AEA-Project Performance Corporation

Brian Helmuth – Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina

Brad May – Program Manager, Adaptation, Environment Canada

Melissa Stults – Sustainability Analyst, Summit Energy

Facilitated and supported by:
Michael Cote, Program Manager, ACCO

Sponsors:

The ACCO Adaptation Working Group recently launched with the mission of developing tools and resources for practitioners seeking to incorporate climate science and implications into organizational, sectoral and/or regional strategies. In support of that effort, the working group is conducting research to establish baseline for ACCO members who are thinking of, planning for, or beginning to identify barriers to effective climate change adaptation.

Effectively communicating climate science and climate change impacts;
Integrating adaptation into business and operating risk management; and
Assisting members in the development of regional adaptation strategies.

About the Questionnaire

The survey will seek to gather information on the nature of your organization's operations, use of climate change information in developing and implementing operational strategies, knowledge of projected climate impacts, and barriers to implementation of adaptation efforts. Click here to take the 15-minute questionnaire.

There are 17-questions -- deadline for submission is September 14, 2011.
The results will assist the working group members with identifying trends and making comparisons that will help the broader climate community.
Individual answers remain strictly private and no identifying information will be shared.
Tallies and preliminary analyses will be published on the ACCO website, www.ACCOonline.org in October 2012.

ACCO Enhancing Decision Making Workshop

Preliminary results will be shared with attendees of the ACCO Enhancing Decision Making Workshop (to be held September 26, 2011 at the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University in Chicago).