English Abstract This report is an evaluation of the embedding of
climate research conducted under the National Research Programme for Global
Air Pollution and Climate Change (NRP) in the Netherlands. The evaluation
was based on interviews and document analysis. The term climate research is
used in a broad sense, embracing impacts, sustainable solutions and
integrated assessment. The term 'embedding' can be conceived in a variety
of ways, depending on what aspect of science is being emphasised. Therein
lies its power: it combines a variety of objectives. An evaluation thus
automatically reveals the diversity of definitions. The report first makes
the differing interpretations explicit. Secondly, it shows that the
fundamentally different opinions on how science functions have consequences
in terms of what may be expected from the NRP. Three images are
differentiated in the report: science as organism, as regime, and as
network. The report shows the effects of NRP on different groups of
research institutes and ends with an analysis of strengths, weaknesses and
recommendations for the NRP.