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2025 Delaware Climate Action Plan
Delawareans’ Opinions on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge about climate change and sea level rise are rapidly evolving. It is important for decision-makers, educators, and others to have locally based and up-to-date information on public attitudes and perceptions about cl …
Greenhouse Gas Technical Assessment Report in Support of 2025 Delaware Climate Action Plan
DNREC engaged ICF Incorporated, LLC (ICF) to support the emissions modeling process that informed the emissions reduction strategies included in the 2025 Delaware Climate Action Plan. ICF employed technical analyses to characterize and model greenhouse …
Delaware 2025 Climate Change Projections Report
In October 2025, the University of Delaware Center for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (CEMA) published the Delaware 2025 Climate Change Projections Report. This report presents a comprehensive assessment of sea level rise, temperature, and preci …
Delaware Greenhouse Gas Inventory
In December 2025, the DNREC Division of Air Quality published Delaware’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2022. The Division of Air Quality prepares the inventory to characterize Delaware’s historical and projected GHG emissions, and thereby inform the pol …
2025 Delaware Climate Action Plan
In January 2026, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control published its updated Climate Action Plan for the next five years. The 2025 Climate Action Plan is a practical playbook to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect …
Climate-Conscious Comprehensive Planning in Delaware
This report is written for planners, local government officials, concerned citizens, and decision-makers who are motivated to move their communities forward in a more sustainable and resilient direction through a truly comprehensive development plannin …
Coastal Delaware Resiliency
A warming climate, changes in weather patterns, and rising sea levels will change how and where business is done in coastal Delaware. These factors may also provide new business opportunities. This report summarizes the current state of climate science …
Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States
The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, jointly convened by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC), began its work in August 2015. The Task Force has focused …
Avoiding and Minimizing Risk of Flood Damage to State Assets: A Guide for Delaware State Agencies
An easy-to-use guide that will help state agencies evaluate and avoid both existing flood risk and future risks posed by climate change during the planning and design of public building and infrastructure projects. Changes in sea levels, temperatures, …
UNNATURAL COASTAL FLOODS: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950
Human-caused climate change is contributing to global sea level rise and consequently aggravating coastal floods. This analysis removes the assessed human-caused component in global sea level from hourly water level records since 1950 at 27 U.S. tide g …