AIBS Shares Recommendations with House Select Committee on Climate Crisis

The American Institute of Biological Sciences has offered a series of recommendations to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The Committee was soliciting input from a broad range of stakeholders on the policies that Congress needs to develop to maintain and expand efforts to address climate change. The panel was established in the U.S. House of Representatives to “investigate, study, make findings, and develop recommendations on policies, strategies, and innovations to achieve substantial and permanent reductions in pollution and other activities that contribute to the climate crisis, which will honor our responsibility to be good stewards of the planet for future generations.” AIBS urged the panel to make increased federal investments in the biological sciences “to improve our understanding of how living systems are being influenced by climate change, identify novel biotechnology and management practices that promote biological resilience to and mitigation of climate change, and develop innovative strategies for improving agricultural productivity while reducing the energy required to produce food and fiber.” In addition, ten other scientific societies, including AIBS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, and American Society of Agronomy, also provided a joint statement, noting, in part: “National Climate Assessments have been a vital tool to enable effective planning across loc...
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