The state Commission on Climate Change unanimously adopted its final report yesterday, and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine indicated he would act on it. “In my administration, we don’t get reports and put them on shelves,“ Kaine told the panel during a meeting in the General Assembly Building. The report makes more than 100 recommendations, including calls to conserve energy better, rely more on nuclear power and increase protections for forests and wetlands.

Global warming could spread disease in Virginia, threaten coastal areas and imperil native animals such as crabs, a state panel says. Virginia’s Commission on Climate Change unanimously adopted those and other findings yesterday. The findings were the panel’s first. The panel, appointed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, includes scientists, business people, lawmakers and environmentalists.