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This Fact Sheet is available as PDF file Hardcopies can be ordered from the online GCRIO catalog.
Additional details on the program's budget are available.
See also CCSP Annual Report to Congress: Our Changing Planet (CCSP-8) Updated August 2008
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The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) integrates federally supported research on global change and climate change, as sponsored by 13 U.S. Government departments and agencies.The CCSP incorporates and integrates the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) with the Administration’s U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI). CCSP budget requests are coordinated through interagency research working groups and other mechanisms, but ultimate budget accountability resides with the participating departments and agencies. As a result of its interagency composition, activities of CCSP participating agencies are funded by Congress through nine of the 13 annual Appropriations bills.
Setting Budget and Program PrioritiesThe CCSP uses a problem-driven rather than a disciplinary approach in setting priorities and sequencing investments, identifying for early action and support those projects and activities that meet the following agreed-upon criteria:
The potential scope of climate change research, observations, and scientific synthesis is so large that the CCSP must clearly identify the highest priority activities for support. The research priorities of the CCSP are reviewed on an annual cycle through the budget process and reflect priority needs and scientific opportunities.While the CCSP Strategic Plan includes a decade-long strategy, it also establishes priorities for the near term consistent with the CCRI. These priorities are reflected in a focusing of resources and enhanced interagency coordination of ongoing and planned research that can best address major gaps in understanding of climate change. The CCSP Strategic Plan provides additional information on these priorities.
This fact sheet was generated by the Climate Change Science Program Office in collaboration with an interagency working group composed of representatives of the 13 Federal agencies participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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