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6 Next Steps for Shifting the USGCRP Paradigm
6 Next Steps for Shifting the USGCRP Paradigm
Pages 77-84
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: "a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change." As input to USGCRP's process to develop its new strategic plan, the committee recommends that the Program apply an integrated risk-framing approach to identify research priorities. This approach would provide insights to avoid the worst potential consequences of urgent risks to human and natural systems from current and future climate change.
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The committee's vision for USGCRP to more fully meet the mandate of the Global Change Research Act in the coming decade, given the significant climate change impacts happening today and projected to increase in the future, will require a significant expansion 78
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supports standards development for greenhouse gas emission monitoring and measurement, but other programs that develop additional relevant knowledge and standards, such as those for buildings or fire safety that are pertinent to the mitigation of or adaptation to global change impacts,1 are not traditionally considered part of NIST's engagement with USGCRP. Another opportunity would be engaging subagencies within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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As noted in the committee's 2016 report Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the Program could benefit from collaborations with these mission agencies in both helping define the research agenda and in translating research into practice (NASEM, 2016a)
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The committee strongly encourages USGCRP to champion diversity among the participants in global change science. An initial step would be an effort to better understand the current state of, and trends in, diversity among individuals involved in research across USGCRP member agencies and, in particular, the extent to which those individuals are representative of the communities considered at greatest risk from climate change and climate policies.
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The committee recognizes the ambitious scope of the recommended re-orientation of USGCRP's next strategic plan, given the challenges to expanding the Program. A set of potential actions are provided by the committee in Box 6.1, that may help the Program ensure an effective implementation of its new strategic plan.
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This plan will be developed at a time when the nation is facing multiple interconnected challenges beyond climate change -- COVID-19, a struggling economy, and longstanding issues related to equity and social justice. USGCRP has the opportunity to put forward a strategic plan that explains how global change research, particularly climate change research, contributes to the knowledge set needed to address these multiple interrelated challenges, and ultimately prepare society to create a more resilient future.
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