Climate Change

Climate change and biodiversity are the global issues of our time. Our climate change research spans a breadth of issues including its effects on, adaptations of and mitigations by plants and the people who manage and depend upon them. We inform and collaborate with the scientific community, the public, conservationists, sustainable development workers and policy makers. We address climate change around the world: in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, in Oceania and in the United States including our home state of Missouri. We will not address the fundamental evidence for climate change well documented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Plants are affected by climate change in many ways, and many of the solutions depend on plants. Most basically, the climate change research of the Missouri Botanical Garden monitors the effects of and details solutions for climate change.

These are the various research efforts by topic and link to projects within the Missouri Botanical Garden and amongst our collaborators:

Training and Capacity Building

Training and Capacity Building on climate change, adaptation, and mitigation are provided locally through Earthways and Education at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Internationally, our scientists work with in-country researchers and collaborators to strengthen scientific and technical capacity and train governmental, non-governmental and local organizations about climate change (Madagascar).

In many parts of the world people see, feel and experience drastic effects of climate change but have little or no idea of the causes, much less the solutions. The Missouri Botanical Garden takes very seriously our role to promote understanding of climate change and of our collective condition on Earth to better address solutions.
Additional Climate Change Links