Climate Change

Climate change is affecting both people and nature in the Chicago region. Chicago Wilderness created a plan called the Chicago Wilderness Climate Action Plan for Nature (CAPN) to address the impacts of
climate change on local nature and identify strategies to help humans and nature respond and adapt to changes in our climate.

Climate Action Plan for Nature: Community Action Strategies outlines how residents of the Chicago region can help implement the goals of the CAPN in their own community through the following ways:
1. Climate-Friendly Gardens and Lawns
2. Water Conservation
3. Monitoring
4. Stewardship
5. Climate Change Education

These community action strategies are designed to assist individuals and communities to:
1. Mitigate, or lessen the future impacts of, climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
2. Help plants and animals adapt to climate change, or
3. Both.

To learn more about the other climate change plans in the region, click on the following links:

City of Chicago: Chicago Climate Action Plan
City of Evanston: Climate Action Plan and Climate Action Plan Annual Report
University of Illinois at Chicago: Climate Action Plan
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning: GO TO 2040
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning: Northeastern Illinois Water Supply/Demand Plan

For information on how climate change may impact the preserves in our region, visit Forest Preserves and Climate Change.