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4. Human Interactions
5. Earth System History
6. Solid Earth Processes
7. Solar Influences

• The Program's goals, objectives, and strategy are consistent with other national and international global change research program plans, including those of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Global Change and the International Council of Scientific Unions' International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

• In FY 1989, funding for focused global change research activities totals $133.9 million. The President's FY 1990 budget proposes a funding level of $190.5 million. This budget will enable the Program to expand and accelerate its research activities in all areas of global change.

• A more detailed research plan will be developed in 1989.

• This strategy was developed by a U.S. Federal interagency group, the Committee on Earth Sciences (CES) of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET), under the directive of the President's Science Advisor. The CES consists of Federal agencies with programmatic responsibilities related to global change issues. There are thirteen CES members. Seven CES members are Federal agencies conducting research in global change.