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Past Accomplishments: Climate Change Science Program. FY 2008 Scientific Research Budget by USGCRP Research Element |
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World Climate Research Program.WCRP will focus primarily on implementation of its 2005-2015 Strategic Framework while pursuing its multi-year activities and core projects. WCRP will also pursue a set of short-term cross-cutting activities to develop and coordinate research of immediate relevance to end users. In 2007, WCRP will focus on effective dialogue with UNFCCC/SBSTA, prioritizing research for the overall UNFCCC following on the IPCC AR4 and in preparation for the AR5. WCRP will also focus on extremes and risks, with an emphasis on drought and flood, abrupt changes in the cryosphere, and the intensity of monsoons.International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.IGBP will focus on implementing its new, second-phase science plan and implementation strategy, fast-track initiatives, and its extensive collaborations with WCRP. One such example is the collaboration on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate between the Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) and the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) projects. IGBP will also hold its Fourth Congress—Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth System, whose goal will be to take a strategic look at ways to make IGBP’s activities more relevant to decisionmakers and improve participation of scientists from developing countries.International Human Dimensions Programme.IHDP will focus on development of its science plan and strategic vision for its second decade. As important elements of this new plan, IHDP plans to improve incorporation of central social science approaches and to engage other groups including social and physical scientific communities, the wider practice community, stakeholders, and other potential producers and users of global environmental change science. The overall expectation is that the efforts of the core projects and the central secretariat will expand the overall community, improve the efforts and outputs of the program, and ultimately move toward mainstreaming of human dimensions in Earth system science.DIVERSITAS. DIVERSITAS will not only continue its efforts through its core projects, but will, together with IGBP, undertake a fast-track initiative focused on plant functional types that are key to understanding the role of plant
diversity in mediating ecosystem function and the response of plants to environmental change. DIVERSITAS will
continue to serve as the lead agency for the Biodiversity task of the GEOSS and will continue to develop a draft Global Biodiversity Observation System Concept. The
program expects to hold two side events at the next Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTA related to its contributions to the
development of an IMoSEB.
Earth System Science Partnership. The ESSP is implemented primarily through its four cross-cutting projects focusing on water, carbon, food and health, and integrated regional studies such as the recently launched Monsoon Asia Regional Study. GWSP is designed around three themes: magnitudes and mechanisms, linkages and feedbacks, and resilience and adaptation as well as cross-cutting themes. The project is currently preparing to launch a global digital water atlas and a global study of water flows, among other activities. GCP’s activities focus around three themes under which numerous activities are organized: patterns and variability, processes and feedbacks, and carbon management as well as high-level syntheses.
SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training Programme.START will implement its project Advancing Capacity to support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA). START plans to complete its Assessments of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC) project and to report to the Global Environment Facility on its results. START will also assist in the implementation of MAIRS, whose project office is located at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.US-Japan Liaison Group on Geosciences and Environment.The United States, with Japan, plans to develop the 12th US-Japan Workshop on Geosciences and Environment in FY 2008; to review the wide range of ongoing cooperative projects; and to consider and approve appropriate new cooperative projects on mutually agreed topics in the geosciences and environment with a special focus on climate and global change.
Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research. CCSP, through its Interagency Working Group (IWG) on International Research and Cooperation, and with funding from the National Science Foundation, continued its support for the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) for which Japan has the lead funding responsibility. APN approved nine new projects and continuing projects for funding in 2006/2007. APN also approved three comprehensive research projects and ten new capacity-building projects under the APN Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE) Programme, including one on the Research Needs on the Ecology of Global Change in Island Landscapes of the Republic of Palau.
APN launched its 2007/2008 call for proposals under its regular program and its CAPaBLE program with the CCSP IWG on International Research and Cooperation participating in the review process through the U.S. National Points-of-Contact. |
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