America's Climate Choices
Featured Activities and Reports
  • Geoengineering Options to Respond to Climate Change: Steps to Establish a Research Agenda
    A workshop to provide input to the America's Climate Choices suite of activities
    June 15-16, 2009
    Washington, DC
    Call for Input
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Policy advice, based on science, to guide the nation's response to climate change.


View the America's Climate Choices Summit Webcast and listen to podcasts.

View the news release and photos from the Summit.

Read some of the press coverage on the Summit.


In response to a request from Congress, the National Academies have launched America's Climate Choices, a suite of studies designed to inform and guide responses to climate change across the nation. Experts representing various levels of government, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and research and academic institutions have been selected to serve on four panels and an overarching committee.

The Summit on America's Climate Choices, held March 30-31, 2009 in Washington, D.C., provided an opportunity for study participants to interact with major thought leaders and key constituencies to frame the questions and issues that the study will address.

Four panels of experts will release consensus reports in late 2009: The Committee on America's Climate Choices will issue a final report in 2010 that will integrate the findings and recommendations from the four panel reports and other sources to identify the most effective short-term actions and most promising long-term strategies, investments, and opportunities for responding to climate change.



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