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Introduction |
Climate Change Action FundScienceOverviewThe Government of Canada established the Climate Change Action Fund in 1998 and allocated $15 Million over three years to Science Impacts and Adaptation (SIA). The initial overall goals of the SIA component were to:
in order to better estimate the risks associated with climate change and to provide advice on appropriate options to address these risks. Over the first three years, the SIA component had two main streams of activity:
In climate system science, 79 projects were funded, largely through support to a series of national workshops, followed by a series of open and targeted calls for proposals on the following topics: climate model improvements; climate monitoring; greenhouse gas sources and sinks; arctic climate; climate and weather extremes and; climate scenarios. The broad objectives and goals of the program driving the first three years of the CCAF remained valid in the renewed CCAF (2001-2004). The National Implementation Strategy outlined four key areas of climate science requiring urgent attention: systematic observations of the climate; biological greenhouse gas sources and sinks; global and regional climate modelling, and; the development and provision of climate scenarios. Taking into consideration the measures on systematic climate monitoring and biological greenhouse gas sources and sinks contained in Action Plan 2000, the renewed CCAF addressed key issues on a limited number of topics, focusing on:
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