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[CITE: 15USC2951]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 56A--GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
 
Sec. 2951. Findings and purposes


(a) Findings

    The Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) Pooling of international resources and scientific 
    capabilities will be essential to a successful international global 
    change program.
        (2) While international scientific planning is already underway, 
    there is currently no comprehensive intergovernmental mechanism for 
    planning, coordinating, or implementing research to understand 
    global change and to mitigate possible adverse effects.
        (3) An international global change research program will be 
    important in building future consensus on methods for reducing 
    global environmental degradation.
        (4) The United States, as a world leader in environmental and 
    Earth sciences, should help provide leadership in developing and 
    implementing an international global change research program.

(b) Purposes

    The purposes of this subchapter are to--
        (1) promote international, intergovernmental cooperation on 
    global change research;
        (2) involve scientists and policymakers from developing nations 
    in such cooperative global change research programs; and
        (3) promote international efforts to provide technical and other 
    assistance to developing nations which will facilitate improvements 
    in their domestic standard of living while minimizing damage to the 
    global or regional environment.

(Pub. L. 101-606, title II, Sec. 202, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3102.)
