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.

Source: Xinhua