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Regional climate change.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
In "Climate Change: Think Globally, Assess Regionally, Act Locally" (Issues, Winter 2009), Charles F. Kennel stresses the importance of empowering local leaders with better information about the climate at the regional level. He provides multiple evidence of the growing consensus that adapting to the consequences of climate change requires local decisions and says that "The world needs a new international framework that encourages and coordinates participatory regional forecasts and links them to the global assessments."
Fortunately, such a framework already exists. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO), which is implementing the Global Earth Observation System ...
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