[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 239 (Friday, December 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30787]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4554]


United States Climate Change Science Program

ACTION: Request U.S. nomination of experts for consideration as 
coordinating lead authors, lead authors, contributing authors, expert 
reviewers, and review editors for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of 
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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SUMMARY: The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, 
objective, open and transparent basis, the scientific, technical, and 
socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific 
basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts, 
and options for adaptation and mitigation. The IPCC has three working 
groups: Working Group I assesses the scientific aspects of the climate 
system and climate change; Working Group II assesses the vulnerability 
of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and 
positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to 
it; and Working Group III assesses options for limiting greenhouse gas 
emissions and otherwise mitigating climate change. The IPCC provides 
scientific, technical, and socio-economic advice to the world 
community, and in particular to the parties to the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through its periodic 
assessment reports and special reports. The IPCC has decided to 
continue to prepare comprehensive assessment reports and agreed to 
complete its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.
    The U.S. Government has received a request from the IPCC to 
nominate experts for consideration as coordinating lead authors, lead 
authors, contributing authors, expert reviewers, and review editors for 
the different chapters and volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report. 
Further information on this request--such as the IPCC request for 
nominations, the approved outlines of the three IPCC working groups for 
the AR4, a description of the roles responsibilities associated with 
them, and a nomination form that must be completed for each nominee--
may be found at either the IPCC Secretariat (http://www.ipcc.ch/ar4/nominations/nominations.htm) or CCSP (http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/ipcc/default.htm) Web sites.

DATES: Completed nomination forms for each nominee should be returned 
to the Climate Change Science Program Office ([email protected]) by noon Monday, January 5, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Allen, U.S. Climate Change 
Science Program, Suite 250, 1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC 
20006. (Phone: 202-419-3468, Fax: 202-223-3065, Email: 
[email protected]); or visit the CCSP Web site at http://www.climatescience.gov.

    Dated: December 8, 2003.
Roberta L. Chew,
Office Director, Acting, Office of Global Change, Bureau of Oceans and 
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 03-30787 Filed 12-11-03; 8:45 am]
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