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3 Assessments and Stakeholder Engagement
3 Assessments and Stakeholder Engagement
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It also can stimulate substantial involvement by agencies, which have supported the assessments by lending staff to the USGCRP, providing technical input, and leading the federal government's engagement with specific expert and stakeholder communities. As documented in previous sections, scientific investments have led to, for example, useful and useable knowledge about changes in the frequency, intensity, and duration of some extreme weather and climate events.
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The USGCRP also developed the Global Change Information System,5 a web-based resource for traceable global change data, information, 1 In addition to public review, this committee and others of the National Academies have reviewed reports for the USGCRP, including many of the Synthesis and Assessment Products and the latest National Climate Assessment (NCA3)
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. Scientific advancements in understanding climate change impacts on human health have led to the development of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System and resources meant to guide local decision makers, emergency managers, and others on responses to excessive heat (see Figure 5)
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This flowchart illustrates the ways USGCRP contributes to scientific adva T w ancements in gglobal change research an the value of that information in stimulatin a broad arra of applicatio including fo protecting an nd f ng ay ons, or nd promoting human health. As an example addressing th question of how increasing temperatures could affect e, he g s human hea led to tools and guideboo designed to reduce morbiidity and morta alth s oks o ality.
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6. Research Priorities Identified by USGCR includes exam RP mples of priorities identified in US GCRP reports an strategic plan s nd ns (USGCRP 20 012b, 2016)
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scientists to participate in lead author meetings for drafting IPCC reports; the time spent by these scientists in assessing the state of knowledge and participating in the meetings was volunteered.8 USGCRP agencies have also played extensive roles in leading, authoring, and reviewing international scientific state-of-understanding assessments on the stratospheric ozone layer. Since its inception in 1987, the WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment Panel on Ozone Depletion has provided state-ofscience assessments to underpin the decisions associated with the protection of the Earth's ozone layer through the United Nations Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments.
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A number of the chapters offered narrative accounts linking potential changes in climatic variables to effects on some of the socioeconomic and ecological systems that directly affect users, including cascading risks and risks that cross sectors; a few specifically evaluated likelihood and consequence based on the scenarios recommended for use in the assessment. As part of the preparation for the fourth NCA, the USGCRP asked the National Academies to hold a workshop to consider ways to gather insights from scientists and practitioners with expertise in climate science and impacts, risk characterization and communication, and management of climate risks in various U.S.
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It is a goal that is in tension with the longstanding role of scientists in setting the agenda of research. The scientific community has an essential role to play, because discoveries and insights flowing from a scientific perspective identified the phenomena of global change long before they began to be felt in practical affairs, a pattern that is likely to continue because the global environment is now on a trajectory unlike that of the past.
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