Integrating federal research and solutions for climate and global change

The U.S. Global Change Research Program's (USGCRP) thirteen participating agencies coordinate their work through Interagency Working Groups (IWGs) that span a wide range of interconnected issues of climate and global change. The IWGs address major components of the Earth’s environmental and human systems, as well as cross-disciplinary approaches for addressing issues under the purview of the USGCRP.  The IWGs are composed of representatives from federal departments and agencies responsible for activities in each area. The IWGs are overseen by the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.

Interagency Working Groups

• Atmospheric Composition
• Climate Variability and Change
• Communications
• Ecosystems
• Global Carbon Cycle
• Global Water Cycle
• Human Contributions and Responses
• International Research and Cooperation
• Land Use and Land Cover Change
• Observations & Monitoring

Decision support activities---including the development of assessments and other tools and information to support adaptation and mitigation decision making---are coordinated in a distributed fashion across the program and are part of the mandate of all IWGs and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.