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Global Change

“Changes in the global environment (including alterations in the climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the earth to sustain life.”

REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH

ENRICHENRICH

APNAPNIAIIAI

IGBPIGBP

WCRPWCRP IHDPIHDP

DIVERSITASDIVERSITAS

INTER-AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH

Agreement of Montevideo, 1992

Signatory and Ratifying Countries(Agreement entered into force: March 11, 1994)

1. Argentina 16. Perú 2. Bolivia 17. USA3. Brasil 18. Uruguay 4. Canada 19. Venezuela 5. Chile 6. Colombia 7. Costa Rica8. Cuba9. República Dominicana 10. Ecuador 11. Guatemala 12. Jamaica 13. México 14. Panamá 15. Paraguay

IAI Main Goals

• Conduct and promote research on global change and their interaction with human activities [Agreement Art.II a) to e), g), h)]

• Improve public awareness and serve as an effective interface between science and the governmental policy process [Agreement Art II, f)]

Constituent bodies: CoP, EC, SAC, Directorate

Programmatic framework: Science agenda

Structure: Distributed network of national and international research and policy

institutionsActivities:

Science program and funded research, CRN, SGP, Grants, SFTraining and educationSupport to workshops, conferences and seminarsSurveys (priorities of GEC research)Data and information systemNewsletterListserver

IAI framework

Conference of the Parties

Executive Council Scientific AdvisoryCommittee

IAIDirectorate

1. Understanding Climate Change and Variability in the Americas 

2. Comparative Studies of Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Land Use and Cover, and Water Resources in the Americas

3. Understanding Global Change Modulations of the Composition of the Atmosphere, Oceans and Fresh Waters

4. Understanding the Human Dimensions and Policy Implications of Global Change, Climate Variability and Land Use

IAI SCIENTIFIC AGENDA

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PRESENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR

IAI

National and International Funding Agencies and Programs

International Scientific Programs

IGBP, IHDP,

WCRP, DIVERSITAS, APN, ENRICH, IRI

START,

UN agencies

(WMO, UNDP) IAIIAI

INPE

NOAA

NASAUNAM

NSFCONICYT’s

GEF

CICESE

U. of Miami

U. of Indiana

CNPq

NSERCANPCyT

National Scientific Programs

Strategy for IAI Programmatic Strategy for IAI Programmatic DevelopmentDevelopment

Assembling scientific teams and planning

research

Promoting initial scientific activities

Start-up Grant Program (SG)1996-1997~1.7 M U$S

Initial Science Program (ISP):- Round I: 1996-1999- Round II: 1997-2000- Round III: 1998-2001~4 M U$S

Developing research networks

Collaborative Research Network Program (CRN) 1999-2004~ 10 M U$S

PESCA 2000-2001 US$ 300,00011 projects – 12 countries

PESCA 2000-2001 US$ 300,00011 projects – 12 countries

Small Grants Program SGP-I 2002-2003 $ 385,00016 projects – 12 countriesSGP-II 2003-2004 $ 740,00022 projects – 16 countries

Small Grants Program SGP-I 2002-2003 $ 385,00016 projects – 12 countriesSGP-II 2003-2004 $ 740,00022 projects – 16 countries

Future programsto developresearch networks(CRN-II?)

Evolution of IAI Research & Training Activities Overtime

-I SGP-II2003

2003

CRN II ?2005

2004

July 1999-Institutions- 130

June 2003-Institutions- 236

July 1999-Researchers- 171

June 2003-Researchers- 347

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350Nº

TOTAL NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS & RESEARCHERS IN CRN PROGRAM - JULY 1999 vs. JUNE 2003 -

Collaborative Research Program (CRN)

CRN Projects

IAI Training Activities 2003 (Summer Institutes)

IAI Training Activities 2004 (Institutes)

IHDP- IAI 2004 Global Environmental Change Institute on Globalisation and Food SystemsScientific Workshop and Science-Policy Forum

October 24 – November 6, 2004, Nicoya, Costa Rica

IAI Institute on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change in Latin America Mexico City, Mexico, September 27-October 8, 2004

                                   

 

      

                                                                                  

                                               

                                   

 

      

                                                                                  

                                               

Forum:IAI: Moving forward. 10th Anniversary of the entry into force of the

“Montevideo Declaration”Buenos Aires, 1st July 2004

Recommendations

• To reaffirm the Institute’s major objectives: regional-level scientific research, scientific and technical excellence, network building, multinational collaboration, training support to young scientists, capacity building, and policy relevance.

• To encourage the Directorate to take into account the results of the recent survey requesting country priorities on global change research when implementing its programs and activities, paying particular attention to the preferred themes and subjects of the Science Agenda

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• To develop appropriate regional scenarios to improve the projection capacity of regional climate models for better assessing the effects of climate change and variability.

Results of survey on national priorities on Global Change Research

115 letters sent, 21 replies received from 10 countries (Canada, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, USA)

• All responses indicated as priority Theme I of the Science Agenda with particular emphasis in the area of scenarios, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

• The second most frequent subjects were those related to Theme IV with emphasis on health and environmental issues and vulnerability of human settlements

• Then comes Theme II focusing on impacts of global change in biodiversity and Theme III with some emphasis on coastal processes

• General comments on Science Agenda:– more integration of the different dimensions of global change

– more relevance to education and training

– greater attention and support for inter-American science assessments, as the bridging mechanisms between science and policy

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Second AIACC Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop Second AIACC Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 24-27, 2004Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 24-27, 2004