Geoscience Reference
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• treatments of variance, extremes, and uncertainties, e.g., probabilistic methods,
uncertainty quantiication, related to risk management
• Improvements in data, especially climate data needed to inform critical energy
supply risk management
• Challenges in crafting an efective, self-sustaining institutional partnership
include:
• Clarifying institutional roles and beneits in illing gaps in the national
knowledge base as a national responsibility, not just a federal government
responsibility
• Clarifying conditions under which private sector partners can share their knowl-
edge with others
• Deploying for collaborative, iterative monitoring, evaluation, and learning
• Exploring the willingness of an array of universities to take the lead as regional
hubs for the partnership
• Establishing a funding mechanism to facilitate continuing institutional relation-
ships and commitments
Aside from relationships with the private sector, a sector that merits particular at-
tention in a self-sustaining continuing assessment process is universities, where the fed-
eral government recognizes a need for a partnership with universities for climate change
assessments and “climate services” (see above).
C. Assessment Findings
Regarding the challenge of developing a self-sustained assessment process for the
longer term, we ind that:
• A self-sustaining long-term assessment process needs a commitment to improve
the science base, working toward a vision of where things should be in the
longer term
SeeSectionVB
High consensus, moderate evidence
• Capacities for long-term assessments of vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts of
climate change on energy supply and use will beneit from efective partner-
ships among a wide range of experts and stakeholders
High consensus, moderate evidence
SeeSectionVA
• Self-sustaining assessment structures will provide value to all partners
SeeSectionVA,B
High consensus, strong evidence
