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Communications
Overview
Recent Accomplishments
Near-Term Plans
CCSP / USGCRP Communications Working Group Members
For long term plans, see
Communications chapter of the Strategic Plan
for the Climate Change Science Program (2003) posted
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CCSP's member agencies support a broad array of communication initiatives. CCSP has developed a strategy and implementation plan for helping to coordinate and facilitate these activities. These efforts are intended to improve public understanding of climate change research by disseminating the results of CCSP activities credibly and effectively, and by making CCSP science findings and products easily available to a diverse set of audiences. CCSP facilitates communication of the results of individual agencies, as well as providing coordination in communicating the results of climate activities of the Federal Government. |
CCSP, in its vision for the program, identified communications as one of four core approaches for achieving its five overarching scientific goals. CCSP is committed to communicating with interested partners in the United States and throughout the world, and to learning from these partners on a continuing basis. As an essential part of its mission, CCSP stresses openness and transparency in its findings and reports.
The Communications Interagency Working Group (CIWG), established during FY 2004, develops and executes an
implementation plan each year that focuses on disseminating the results of CCSP activities credibly and effectively, and
making CCSP science findings and products easily available to a diverse set of audiences. Elements of the implementation plan for calendar year 2007 include:
- Media Relations. When requested by the CCSP Director, assist in communicating on climate science issues.
- Public Outreach. Develop materials and methods for public outreach on issues related to climate science and the activities and products of CCSP.
- Web Sites. Develop and advance a strategy for improving,
integrating, and promoting the content of web sites operated or supported by CCSP and its participating agencies, recognizing that the sites are essential communication and outreach tools.
The Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO), funded and supervised by
the agencies and departments participating in CCSP, supports the program's
communications goals, along with members of the CIWG. CCSPO assists the CIWG, coordinates preparation of the annual Our Changing Planet report to Congress as well as other reports, and is responsible for managing the program's interagency web sites.
See also:
Communications [also available:
PDF Version]. Chapter 14 from the Strategic Plan for
the Climate Change Science Program (July 2003).
Reporting and Outreach Plans. Presentation from Breakout
Session 24 of the US Climate Change Science Program: Planning
Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders, 3-5 December 2002, Washington, DC.
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