The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been
established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic
information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential
impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
IPCC publications are prepared by three Working Groups (WG I, II and III)
composed of hundreds of scientists from many countries. The IPCC's Fourth
Assessment Report (4AR), published in 2007, is available at
www.ipcc.ch/.
The "Summaries for Policymakers" by the three Working Groups, which were used
as the source for the GreenFacts Digest on Climate Change (2007), can be found
below:
The IPCC's previous report on climate change, the 2001 Third Assessment Report
(TAR), was also summarised by GreenFacts
(click here for the Digest).
In 2007, the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore "for their efforts
to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and
to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such
change".
