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Discussion: Organizational Needs and Issues
Pages 17-22

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... By contrast, climate work in the physical sciences is organized around specific models and identified needs, often with public funding, such as through the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
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... • Emphasize the broader context of adaptation to draw on prior research on sustainability, development, and multiple stressors. IPCC STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES The IPCC has accomplished a great deal, including building linked scientific and political consensus, communicating scientific findings to decision makers and the public, stimulating the development of an international climate change research community, facilitating science-based policy development, and protecting science from political distortion.
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... • Pick a few high-priority gaps in the research base and accelerate targeted gap-filling efforts, such as potential impact costs, adaptation prospects and approaches, multicausal driving forces for impacts and responses, possible impact thresholds, and tipping points. • Catalyze research through special reports, expert meetings, and workshops, through which smaller groups can answer urgent and cross-cutting questions (perhaps permitting longer times between full assessments)
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... U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Workshop participants pointed out that major changes have taken place at EPA over the last year or more, due to the IPCC's impact on the agency's ability to discuss climate-related issues and to the Supreme Court's decision requiring EPA to reconsider risks to public health and welfare when considering regulation of motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
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... . The integrated assessment modeling community is beginning to address this imbalance, including collaborations with researchers and analysts working on vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation, but exploration of different tools, techniques, and collaborations is required if integrated assessment models are to be truly useful for the analysis of climate change consequences.
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... Numerous research funding opportunities exist in disparate programs. SCIENCE AND POLICY TIMELINES The public and decision makers have become aware that responses to climate change are of utmost urgency.
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