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suite of activities, examines the nation's options for responding to the risks posed by climate change. Although it is crucial to recognize that climate change is inherently an international concern that requires response efforts from all countries, this report focuses on the essential elements of an effective national response, which includes: • Enacting policies and programs that reduce risk by limiting the causes of cli mate change and reducing vulnerability to its impacts; • Investing in research and development efforts that increase knowledge and improve the number and effectiveness of response options available; • Developing institutions and processes that ensure pertinent information is collected and that link scientific and technical analysis with public deliberation and decision making; • Periodically evaluating how response efforts are progressing and updating response goals and strategies in light of new information and understanding.
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In the context of an iterative risk management framework, and building on the analyses in the four ACC panel reports, the committee recommends the following priority actions for an effective and comprehensive national response to climate change: Substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the committee's judgment there are many reasons why it is imprudent to delay actions that at least begin the process of substantially reducing emissions.
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Climate change is already happening, and additional changes can be expected for all plausible scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions. Prudent risk management demands advanced planning to deal with possible adverse outcomes -- known and unknown -- by increasing the nation's resilience to both gradual changes and the possibility of abrupt disaster events.
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Effectively addressing climate change requires both contributing to and learning from other countries' efforts. RECOMMENDATION 6: The United States should actively engage in internationallevel climate change response efforts: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through cooperative technology development and sharing of expertise, to enhance adaptive capabilities (particularly among developing nations that lack the needed resources)
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, assuring effective delineation of roles among different federal agencies (horizontal coordination) , and promoting effective integration among the different components of a comprehensive climate change response strategy (e.g., all the various efforts discussed in each of the previous recommendations)
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