Support of the Joint WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

国务院将把来自国家科学基金会的资金与其他联邦机构的资金结合起来，作为美国对政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC） 1993年活动的总体贡献。这将支持IPCC秘书处编制IPCC第二次评估报告（定于1995年年底出版）的工作，并支持发展中国家的科学家参加IPCC工作组和小组的会议，这些工作组和小组被指定负责为第二次评估报告编写投入，特别是关于科学问题的投入。第二次评估报告将包括三个重点评估。第一次评估将像第一次评估一样讨论科学问题。然而，第二份报告将涵盖影响和应对方案（而不是“战略”），第三份报告将涉及“跨领域的经济和其他问题”。科学评估将涉及：二氧化碳和碳循环；其他温室气体；气溶胶;辐射强迫;以及制定国家净排放清单的方法。

Reifsnyder 9320268 The Department of State will combine funding from the National Science Foundation with funding from other Federal agencies in an overall U.S. contribution to the 1993 activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This will support the work of the IPCC Secretariat to produce the IPCC's Second Assessment Report (scheduled for publication in late 1995) and to support the participation of scientists from developing countries in meetings of IPCC Working Groups and Subgroups which have been assigned responsibilities for preparing inputs, especially on scientific issues, for the Second Assess- ment Report. The Second Assessment Report will include three focussed assessments. The first will address science as in the First Assessment. However, the second will cover both impacts and response options (rather than "strategies") and the third will address "cross-cutting economic and other issues". The science assessment will address: carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle; other greenhouse gases; aerosols; radiative forcing; and methodologies for developing national inventories of net emissions.