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# 91999E2831

**WRITTEN QUESTION E-2831/99 by Eija-Riitta Korhola (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Evaluations of the current research into climate change.** 
  
*Official Journal 280 E , 03/10/2000 P. 0142 - 0142*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2831/99

by Eija-Riitta Korhola (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(18 January 2000)

Subject: Evaluations of the current research into climate change

What evaluations have been undertaken by or for the European Commission of the current state of the art concerning research into climate change in Europe, in the United States of America, and in other countries?

Answer given by Mr Busquin on behalf of the Commission

(11 February 2000)

The state-of-the-art of climate research on a global scale is evaluated on a periodic basis by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN), where a majority of Community project coordinators are directly involved. In addition, a major conference (European climate science conference) was held in Vienna, under the Austrian Presidency in October 1998 at the end of the Fourth framework programme for RTD (FP4) to review the achievements and assess the state-of-the-art of Community funded climate research. The proceedings of this conference have been recently published as a CD-Rom (available from the Research and Technological Development Directorate general see also Recent results of EC's climate research, Eds. Ghazi et al, the Research and Technological Development publication). Clearly, the European climate science community is playing a leading role in research on a worldwide basis. This fact was also confirmed by the reports of the Commission's monitoring panel and the five year assessment panel. One of the improvements recommended is the streamlining of research towards policy objectives and is now being addressed in the Fifth framework programme (FP5).

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