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Capital Investment
Energy
Environment
Health
Transportation
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| Note:
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As of May 1, 2025, the Minn. Pollution Control Agency stated: "MPCA ran into some contracting issues that significantly delayed our progress on this report. We are having conversations about the possibility of getting a formal change to the due date, as we anticipate the report will not be complete for some months yet."
The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways or Representative Concentration Pathways are as described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The report must identify what research, data, modeling, stakeholder engagement, and other resources are needed in order to:
(1) estimate costs for mid-century, late-century, and end-of-century, using 2024 dollars as a baseline;
(2) estimate costs related to hazards, including but not limited to precipitation and heat and the impacts of precipitation and heat on soil and lakes;
(3) provide an analysis of the projected costs and impacts of additional hazards like flooding, drought, wildfires, high-wind events, extreme cold, and vector-borne illnesses;
(4) provide analyses of how these hazards and impacts are experienced differently by Minnesotans based on demographics, including race, gender, ability, and age, as well as economic status and geography; and
(5) identify methods for understanding and making decisions about the trade-offs between the financial and social costs to mitigate climate risks and the level of risk reduction achieved.
(b) The report must identify what research, data, modeling, stakeholder engagement, and other resources are needed in order to estimate the costs of impacts on:
(1) Minnesota's natural environment, including but not limited to impacts on:
(i) working lands and natural lands;
(ii) water, including but not limited to surface waters, rivers, drinking water, and Lake Superior;
(iii) air, including but not limited to surface temperature and air quality; and
(iv) the biodiversity of Minnesota's biomes;
(2) Minnesota's built environment, including but not limited to impacts on:
(i) residential, commercial, and public buildings; and
(ii) critical infrastructure, including but not limited to the infrastructure that manages stormwater, wastewater, drinking water, transportation, electricity, gas, and communications technologies; and
(3) Minnesota's social environment, including but not limited to impacts on:
(i) human settlement and migration;
(ii) statewide and regional economies, including but not limited to impacts on industries like tourism, agriculture, and forest products; and
(iii) public health, including but not limited to impacts related to emergency response, asthma, heat exposure, and vector-borne illnesses.
(c) The report should recommend best practices for integrating costs estimates with University of Minnesota's Minnesota CliMAT (Climate Mapping and Analysis Tool) or any related preceding or successor modeling tools.
(d) To prepare the report, the commissioner must engage subject-area experts and other stakeholders, as needed, to contribute to the report.
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