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Special Initiative: Climate Change
In this year’s State of the Union Address, President Bush announced that his FY 2008 budget request would contain funding to support research to eliminate the projected growth of automobile carbon dioxide emission within 10 years. The key agency in the president’s effort is the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which would receive $1.54 billion under the proposed FY08 budget. While stating the area was a priority in the address, the current request is approximately $109 million less than the FY07 request (6.5 percent decrease). Most of the decrease is explained by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as being a result of NASA no longer considering its Ground Network and Research Range a part of CCSP.
CCSP coordinates the climate change research of 13 departments and agencies, and provides technical summaries of research for policymakers. Agencies that would receive CCSP funding under the FY08 budget include:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration - $871 million
- National Science Foundation - $208 million
- NOAA (Commerce) - $174 million
- Energy - $130 million
- Agriculture - $59 million
- National Institutes of Health - $50 million
- US Geological Survey (Interior) - $27 million
- Environmental Protection Agency - $18 million
- Smithsonian - $6 million
- Transportation - $1 million
- US Agency for International Development – to be determined (FY07 - $14 million)
In addition, the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) would continue to complement CCSP programs by implementing its 2006 Strategic Plan, which identifies priorities for climate technology research. CCTP coordinates R&D programs at several agencies, but its FY08 portfolio has not yet been released.
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