Climate Adaptation

President Biden has set ambitious climate adaptation and mitigation goals, and EPA will play a central role delivering on those commitments. EPA will help the nation anticipate, prepare for, adapt to, and recover from the impacts of climate change.
This includes evaluating how climate change might affect efforts to attain environmental standards and identifying strategies that also reduce greenhouse gases and other pollution.

In 2021, EPA issued a Policy Statement signed by Administrator Regan and a Climate Adaptation Action Plan. In October 2022, EPA issued 20 Climate Adaptation Implementation Plans developed by its major offices, including the National Program and Regional Offices and the Office of Policy (including the Office of Environmental Justice which became a separate program office in September 2022).

EPA’s Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X) is an interactive resource to help local governments effectively deliver services to their communities even as the climate changes.

- What is climate adaptation?
- In 2022, EPA programs and regions published adaptation implementation plans. Check out the 2022 plans.
- EPA's Climate Change website
- EPA Climate Adaptation Program Leads and Regional/Program Points of Contact