# Presentation: 877769

## U.S. Climate Change Science Program& Climate Change Technology ProgramUpdates  NOAA Science Advisory Board MeetingJuly 14, 2004

**James R. Mahoney, Ph.D.**** **
- Assistant Secretary of Commerce
- for Oceans and Atmosphere
- Director, Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)

## Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)

## CCSP Milestones

- NOV 2002   *Discussion Draft of CCSP Strategic Plan*
- DEC 2002   CCSP Planning Workshop for Scientists and 			Stakeholders
- JAN 2003    Written comments received from scientific and user 			communities
- FEB 2003    NRC report, *Planning Climate and Global Change **	**	**	**Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate **	**	**	**Change Science Program Strategic Plan*
- JULY 2003  Publication of the (revised) *Strategic Plan for the U.S. **	**	**Climate Change Science Program*
- FEB 2004    NRC report, *Implementing Climate and Global Change **	**	**Research:  A Review of the Final U.S. Climate **	**	**	**Change Science Program Strategic Plan*

**Notes:**
Just to bring the group up to date, 

## National Research Council Review on (final) CCSP Strategic Plan

- “The Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program articulates a guiding vision, is *appropriately ambitious, and is broad in scope*.”
- “In fact, the approaches taken by the CCSP to receive and respond to comments from a large and broad group of scientists and stakeholders, including a two-stage independent review of the plan, *set a high standard for government research programs*.”
- “As a result,  the revised strategic plan is much improved over its November 2002 draft, and now includes the elements of a strategic management framework that could permit it to *effectively guide research on climate and associated global changes over the next decades*.”
- “The plan *addresses much of the critical science* in a strategic framework that places the research it proposes in the context of national needs.”

**Notes:**
Released on February 18, 2004
The final NRC review is extremely helpful to CCSP as we move to the implementation phase.

## CCSP Synthesis and Assessment (S&A) Products

- Apr 1, 2004    Pubic Comment Period for *Draft Guidelines for the **	**	**CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products* 			(Guidelines)
- May 7, 2004   Public comment period ended for the Guidelines 			and 35 pages of comments were received
- July 8, 2004    Product 1.1 prospectus posted for pubic comment 			on CCSP web site and Federal Register (on 7/13).
- July 30, 2004  Revised Guidelines to be posted

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
The first number indicates the corresponding goal number, and the second number is simply an enumeration of the products within each goal.

## Climate Change Science Program

**FY 2005 Request Research Budget ($M)**

**Notes:**
% Contributions by agency

## CCSP Priorities 

_**Administration Priorities**_
- Reduce scientific uncertainties in aerosols
- Reduce scientific uncertainties in carbon sources and sinks (and water cycle)
- Improve climate observations
- Improve climate modeling systems
_**Strategic Plan Priorities**_
- Enhance decision support capabilities
- Enhance communications

## FY06 Budget Exercise

- Coordinated approach to climate science priorities are consistent across the federal government
- Requiring agency principals to have knowledge of and integrate, when appropriate, climate programs across their entire agency

## Challenges Ahead for CCSP

- As always, the budget process
- Scientific prioritization for the government and each individual agency
- Achieving high quantity deliverable stream
- Maintaining credibility
- Maintaining interaction with the scientific and international communities, as well as the users
- Delivering the best possible science to* inform* decisionmakers

## Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP)

## The Near Term Goal:Reducing GHG Intensity

- Goal:
- 18% GHG intensity reduction by 2012
- 500MMTCE reductions from 2002-2012
- Tools:
- Policy
- Science
- Technology
- International Cooperation

## CCTP 2003 Major Deliverables

**Research and Current Activities Report**
- Reducing emissions from energy end-use and infrastructure
- Reducing emissions from energy supply
- Capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide
- Reducing emissions of other greenhouse gases
- Enhancing measurement and monitoring capabilities
**Technology Options Report**
- Hydrogen Fuel/Freedom CAR (Cooperative Automotive Research)
- IPHE (International Partnership on Hydrogen Economy)
- FutureGen
- CSLF (Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum)
- Nuclear Power Gen IV
- ITER

## Technology Options for the Near and Long-Term

- Transportation
- Buildings
- Infrastructure (Grid)
- Industry
- Low-emissions fossil-based power and fuels
- Hydrogen
- Renewable energy and fuels
- Nuclear fission

- Nuclear fusion
- Geologic sequestration
- Terrestrial sequestration
- Ocean sequestration
- Methane emissions
- Other High GWP Gases
- Tropospheric Ozone  Precursors and Black Carbon
- Measurement and Monitoring

**Notes:**
advance the state of knowledge of climate variability, the potential response of the climate system (and related human and environmental systems) to human-induced changes in the atmosphere and land surface, and the implications of these potential changes and management options for natural environments. 

## Policy Actions for Near-Term Progress

- Voluntary Programs
**Climate VISION (www.climatevision.gov)**
**Climate Leaders (www.epa.gov/climateleaders)**
**SmartWay Transport Partnership (www.epa.gov/smartway)**
**1605(b)**
- Tax incentives/deployment partnerships
- Fuel Economy Increase for Light Trucks
- USDA Incentives for Sequestration
- USAID and GEF funding
- Initiative Against Illegal Logging
- Tropical Forest Conservation

## Climate Change Technology FY05 Request

- $3 billion in technology

**Notes:**
advance the state of knowledge of climate variability, the potential response of the climate system (and related human and environmental systems) to human-induced changes in the atmosphere and land surface, and the implications of these potential changes and management options for natural environments. 

## Climate Change Technology FY05 Request

**Climate Change Technology ****FY05 Request**

## CCTP Strategic Plan – Late 2004

- Introduction/Context
- Goal Chapters
- Role for Technology
- R&D Strategy
- Current Portfolio Emphasis
- Future Applied Research Directions
- Focusing Basic Science Contributions
- Conclusion and Appendices

## CCTP and CCSP Collaborations

- Carbon Sequestration
- Emissions Scenarios (S&A Product for CCSP)

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