US Support for the International START Secretariat

START是在国际科学理事会的支持下建立的，由国际地圈-生物圈方案、世界气候研究方案和关于全球环境变化的国际人文方面方案共同赞助，它将促进发展中国家科学家和机构合作的区域网络。这些网络将对环境变化的区域方面进行研究，评估这种变化的影响和脆弱性，并向决策者提供信息。《削减战略武器条约》将通过各种各样的培训和职业发展方案，提高发展中国家应对环境变化和退化复杂过程的科学能力。削减战略武器条约还将调动资源，支持发展中地区的基础设施和环境变化研究项目，从而撬动核心支持。START的研究驱动型能力建设活动预计每年将有数百名参与者参与，并鼓励特别是年轻的START网络科学家成为他们所在地区的导师和领导者，为全球变化研究项目的科学和规划委员会服务，并为决策过程贡献他们的科学专业知识。秘书处将负责国际削减战略武器条约秘书处建立的区域研究网络和方案的国际框架的方案规划、协调和资源调动。秘书处还将继续努力，通过在世界发展中地区进行研究驱动的能力建设，使全球变化研究国际化。预计这些网络和计划还将使大量美国科学家和机构参与合作研究伙伴关系。

START, established under the aegis of ICSU, and co-sponsored by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the World Climate Research Programme, and the International Human Dimensions Programme on global environmental change, will foster regional networks of collaborating scientists and institutions in developing countries. These networks will conduct research on regional aspects of environmental change, assess impacts and vulnerabilities to such changes, and provide information to policy-makers. START will enhance the scientific capacity of developing countries to address the complex processes of environmental change and degradation through a wide variety of training and career development programs. START will also mobilize resources to support infrastructure and research programs on environmental change within developing regions resulting in a leveraging of core support.START's research-driven capacity-building activities are expected to involve annually hundreds of participants and to encourage especially young START network scientists to become mentors and leaders in their region, to serve on scientific and planning committees for the global change research programs, and to contribute their scientific expertise to the policy-making process. The Secretariat will be responsible for program planning, coordination, and resource mobilization for the international framework of regional research networks and programs that the International START Secretariat has established. The Secretariat will also maintain its effort to internationalize global change research through research-driven capacity building in developing regions of the world. These networks and programs are expected to also engage a large number of U.S. scientists and institutions in collaborative research partnerships.