Appendix D: List of Interagency Working Groups and Participating Agencies
As described by USGCRP11: “Interagency Working Groups (IWGs) are the primary USGCRP vehicles for implementing and coordinating global change research activities within and across agencies. These groups are critical to integration and assessment of progress throughout the Program. The working groups span a wide range of interconnected climate and global change issues and address major components of the Earth’s environmental and human systems, as well as cross-disciplinary approaches for addressing these issues.
IWGs are designed to bring agencies together to plan, develop, and implement coordinated activities, and to identify and fill gaps in the Program’s plans. They allow public officials to communicate with each other on emerging directions within their agencies, their stakeholder needs, and best practices learned from agency activities. Together, these functions allow the agencies to work in a more coordinated and effective manner.”
There are currently 13 IWGs:
- Integrated Observations Interagency Working Group
- Process Research Coordinating Committee
- Interagency Group on Integrative Modeling
- Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group
- Adaptation Science Interagency Working Group
- Interagency Crosscutting Group on Climate Change and Human Health
- Social Sciences Coordinating Committee
- Interagency National Climate Assessment Working Group
- Coordinating Group on Scenarios and Interpretive Science
- International Research and Cooperation Interagency Working Group
- Global Change Information System Interagency Coordination
- Education Interagency Working Group
- Indicators Interagency Working Group (IndIWG)
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