Section 2951 - Findings and purposes(a) FindingsThe Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Pooling of international resources and scientific capabilities will be essential to a successful international global change program.(2) While international scientific planning is already underway, there is currently no comprehensive intergovernmental mechanism for planning, coordinating, or implementing research to understand global change and to mitigate possible adverse effects.(3) An international global change research program will be important in building future consensus on methods for reducing global environmental degradation.(4) The United States, as a world leader in environmental and Earth sciences, should help provide leadership in developing and implementing an international global change research program.(b) PurposesThe purposes of this subchapter are to-
(2) involve scientists and policymakers from developing nations in such cooperative global change research programs; and(3) promote international efforts to provide technical and other assistance to developing nations which will facilitate improvements in their domestic standard of living while minimizing damage to the global or regional environment. Pub. L. 101-606, title II, §202, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3102. - Program
- "Program" means the United States Global Change Research Program established under section 2933 of this title.
- global change research
- "global change research" means study, monitoring, assessment, prediction, and information management activities to describe and understand-(A) the interactive physical, chemical, and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system;(B) the unique environment that the Earth provides for life;(C) changes that are occurring in the Earth system; and(D) the manner in which such system, environment, and changes are influenced by human actions;
- global change
- "global change" means changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life;