About the IPCC

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change
  • Established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988
  • Provides the world with a scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
  • Since it was established it has produced four Assessment reports: 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007.
  • On December 10, 2007 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the IPCC and former U.S. Vice-President 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’.
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Sources:

  1. The IPCC > Organization website