LSI 2010 NRD Santa Fe final conference binder 072110.pdf

Ira Gottlieb of McCarter & English, LLP Speaker 11: 9
Climate Change and NRD …?
Federal Trustee Efforts
NOAA Climate Change Assessment
Components
Threat Assessment:
– Apply regionalized climate change
data and models
– Map oil infrastructure, waste sites,
and contaminant models
– Identify potential impacts to
sensitive habitats, species, and
human uses
Ecosystem/Species
Vulnerability Index
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Climate Change and NRD …?
Federal Trustee Efforts
NOAA Climate Change Assessment
Components
Vulnerability Index and Assessment:
– Determine values for climate change risk
factors (inundation, air temperature,
wetland habitat change)
– Develop a relationship between potential
impacts and climate change risk factors
– Integrate spatially explicit risks and
values into suite of vulnerability indices
Facility Threat Index
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Law Seminars International | Natural Resource Damages | 07/15/10 in Santa Fe, NM