The U.S. Global Change Research Program: History and organization
Abstract
The U.S. government has been proactively seeking solutions to the growing concern with issues relating to global change through several initiatives. A major global change initiative in 1993 supported by both President Clinton and Vice President Gore was announced with the release of the U.S. Climate Change Action Plan. The objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. At that time, President Clinton also committed his administration to begin actively working on negotiations of international agreements on desertification and forestry. President Clinton's Earth Day announcement on 21 April 1993 stated,
Citation
Heyman, B.L., French, J.C., Bull, G.L. and Bretherton, F.P. (1995), "The U.S. Global Change Research Program: History and organization", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 13 No. 1/2, pp. 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047942
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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