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Implementing Climate and Global Change Research A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1. Overall Assessment of the Strategic Plan
Pages 5-10

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... the Global Change Research Act of 1990, including its provisions for annual reporting of findings and short-term Recommendation: The CCSP should implement the plans, scientific reviews by the National Academies, activities described in the strategic plan with urgency. periodic publication of a 10-year strategic plan for the program, and assessments of climate change impacts.
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From page 6...
... The revised strategic plan describes how initial priorities The alignment of research activities with program were chosen, based in part on the 2001 NRC report Climate goals has been improved compared with the draft plan in Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, and that "examples of key research activities" are highlighted identifies several "Criteria for Prioritization" (see Box 1-2)
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... The committee CLARITY AND INTEGRATION OF finds that many of the 0-2 and 2-4 year deliverables are too THE PLAN short to attain any significant progress on scientific goals for which work is not already underway. Clear definition of This committee identified a lack of clarity about the deliverables is particularly important for research that relationship between the Global Change Research Program addresses challenging unanswered questions or involves (GCRP)
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From page 8...
... The revised strategic plan should address the interactions and synergies of climate change with other associated global changes. Revisions to the CCSP Strategic Plan Chapter 2 of the revised plan (Integrating Climate and Global Change Research)
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... subsequently ratified the United Nations Framework In the remainder of this report, key aspects of the Convention on Climate Change.3 The Framework's strategic plan needing improvement are identified. The relevance to the present strategic plan is expressed clearly: committee does not advocate that the CCSP undertake "All parties shall promote and cooperate in scientific, another major revision to the strategic plan, because the technological, technical, socio-economic, and other plan provides a wholly adequate framework for the CCSP research, systematic observation, and development of data and a major revision would divert resources from the archives related to the climate system and intended to activities described in the plan.
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