1. SBSTA Research Dialogue: Perspectives from the United States
June 2010, Bonn

2. Key messages
Science is central to the climate challenge, both for understanding and for response
Climate science is changing. The new vision and mission for integrated global change research needs to focus on the challenges of sustainability in a global context.

3. Key messages
We need to do a better job of using what we know, and deploy science in support of adaptation and mitigation:
National Adaptation Strategy
Climate Observing Systems and Services
National Climate Assessment
Adaptation Research

4. “understand, assess, predict . . .”
The USGCRP Mandate
“understand, assess, predict . . .”
traditional USGCRP strengths: physical science basis for climate change
National Climate Assessment process
“. . . and respond to global change”
adaptation research and analysis
mitigation – technology and analysis
science for decision support (climate services)
outreach, education, and engagement

5. Reorganize around scientific-societal issues
Scientific basis for understanding climate change and developing informed responses
Reorganize around scientific-societal issues
Establish a climate observing system
Develop next generation coupled Earth system models
Strengthen research on adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability
Initiate national assessment process with broad stakeholder participation
Coordinate climate services to decision makers
Reorganize to facilitate cross-cutting research focused on understnading the interactions among climate, human, and environmental systems and on supporting societal resposnes to climate change
Obs-including physical, biological, and social observations
Models – to improve attibution and prediction of high-impact regional weather and climate, to initialize seasonal to decadal cliamte forecasting, and to provide predictions of impact affecting adaptive capacities and vulnerabilities of environmental and human systems

6. A vision of the future: Three coordinated elements
Reduce energy demand; improve efficiency; expand use of low and zero carbon sources; carbon capture and sequestration; accelerate retirement of carbon intensive infrastructure; create new technology choices
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Change Science
Flexible, comprehensive, integrated and cross-cutting
Comprehensive climate observing system
Advanced models and tools
Expanded capacity
A collaborative national strategy and program, in partnership with state, local and non-governmental partners

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