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Established in 1988 by the WMO and the UNEP, the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is " to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change."

IPCC publications are prepared by three Working Groups (WG I, II and III) composed of hundreds of scientists from many countries. These publications are generally recognized as providing the scientific consensus on climate change.

The IPCC's complete Third Assessment Report (TAR), published in 2001, is available in full in HTML on
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/
index.htm.
See some of the several summaries:

• "Climate Change 2001", by Bob Watson, former Chairman of the IPCC:
  http://www.ipcc.ch/press/sp-cop6.htm
• the "Synthesis Report": 9 Q&As for Policymakers, on
  http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/
  
• the "Summaries for Policymakers" (the source for Questions 1 to 6 of GreenFacts Digest):
  • "The Scientific Basis" (WG I) on
    http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/vol4/english/pdf/wg1spm.pdf
  • "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" (WG II) on
    http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/wg2SPMfinal.pdf
  • "Mitigation" (WG III) on
    http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/wg3spm.pdf

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