The CWCB's Drought Planning Toolbox is designed to assist water users throughout the state with their efforts in planning and response to a drought. Explore the toolbox to find drought information and data, as well as a comprehensive suite of planning resources and tools.

The State of Colorado aims to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by at least 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050 relative to 2005 emissions levels. Hydrogen is identified as a potentially important low-carbon fuel for beyond 2030, especially to reduce emissions in hard-to-electrify sectors. This roadmap identifies opportunities, barriers and recommended actions for the deployment of low-carbon hydrogen in the state of Colorado over the next...

Colorado's climate has warmed in recent decades, and climate models unanimously project this warming trend will continue into the future. Colorado experiences numerous climate related disasters, such as floods, droughts and wildfires, which will continue to occur in the future and pose serious hazards to public safety and the economy, regardless of the rate at which the climate warms. Key vulnerabilities are defined as "those aspects of the state's...

This report summarizes the results of a rapid landscape-scale climate vulnerability assessment for the Gunnison Basin. The primary objective of this assessment was to determine what ecosystems/habitats and species are most at risk to climate change (and why) under climate change scenarios predicted for 2050. This report summarizes the results of a landscape-scale climate change vulnerability assessment of 24 ecosystems (17 terrestrial and seven freshwater...

In 2013, the Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) for assistance in conducting a climate change vulnerability assessment to help focus attention on the highest priority species and habitats. In 2015, CNHP completed vulnerability assessments for 98 species and 20 ecological systems. That assessment highlighted two clear priorities for BLM management in Colorado: pinyon-juniper...

Climate change wasn't on the public's radar in 1995, when Mary Taylor Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in the Colorado Rockies. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of observations. Her twenty-five year journal, she realized, was a record of climate change, happening not on an Antarctic ice sheet but in their own natural neighborhood and echoed in everyone's backyard.

"This book uses the author's hike on the Colorado Trail to frame a conservation-themed and scientific synthesis work about the sweeping transformation of Colorado's mountain ecosystems and associated wilderness impacted by climate change"--