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Brazil to create research
network to tackle climate change
The Brazilian government is to
create a network of research
institutes to tackle climate
change, Minister of Science and
Technology Sergio Rezende
announced Thursday.
The institutes will conduct
research into issues related to
climate change, and the results
will facilitate the government's
efforts to halt the acceleration
of the process, said Rezende.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva will sign a decree
creating the network as part of
the National Plan to Fight
Climate Change, said the
minister, noting the National
Institute of Space Research will
take the leading role in the
program.
Rezende said the government made
the decision after January's
release of the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which warned
that acceleration of global
warming would result in more
severe rains, the melting of
glaciers, droughts, heat waves
and rising sea levels.
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