Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the red pill and
you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the
rabbit-hole goes."
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14. In 1988, UNEP and WMO jointly established the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as concern over climate change became a
political issue. The purpose of the IPCC was to assess the state of
knowledge on the various aspects of climate change including science,
environmental and socio-economic impacts and response strategies.
The IPCC is recognized as the most authoritative scientific and
technical voice on climate change, and its assessments had a profound
influence on the negotiators of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. The IPCC
continues to provide governments with scientific, technical and
socio-economic information relevant to evaluating the risks and
developing a response to global climate change.
The IPCC is organized into three working groups plus a task force on
national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. Each of these four bodies
has two co-chairmen (one from a developed and one from a developing
country) and a technical support unit. Working Group I assesses the
scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change; Working
Group II addresses the vulnerability of human and natural systems to
climate change, the negative and positive consequences of climate
change, and options for adapting to them; and Working Group III
assesses options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise
mitigating climate change, as well as economic issues. Approximately
400 experts from some 120 countries are directly involved in drafting,
revising and finalizing the IPCC reports and another 2,500 experts
participate in the review process. The IPCC authors are nominated by
governments and by international organizations including NGOs.
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