econ

Impacts of Climate Change on Washington's Economy
2009 Full Report (2.6MB pdf)
Focus on Impacts of Climate Change in Washington State - overview factsheet (pdf)

News release
2006 Economic Impacts Report

In February 2009, the University of Oregon issued a report by a team of university and private economists from Oregon, Washington and several other states, detailing the economic costs in Washington state of a “business as usual approach to climate change.”

The economists concluded that Washington’s families, businesses and communities are likely to incur billions of dollars of annual economic costs if Washington state and other states and nations fail to drive reductions in climate-changing greenhouse gas pollution.


* Increased energy costs
* Reduced salmon populations
* Coastal and storm damage
* Reduced food production
* Increased wildland fire costs
* Increased public health costs
* Lost recreation