THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This supporting material has not been subject to formal IPCC review process. Preface The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) completed its Second Assessment Report in 1995. The IPCC has three Working Groups that focus on different aspects of climate change, viz. natural science, impacts...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conducts policyrelevant but not policy-prescriptive assessments of climate science. In this review, we engage with some of the key design features, achievements, and challenges that situate and characterize the IPCC as an intergovernmental organization that is tasked with producing global environmental assessments (GEAs). These include the pr...

Network Analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Introduction In 1988 the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations formed a joint organization: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new organization, the IPCC for short, was charged to fairly and openly assess the science and socioeconomic challenges regarding climate change. collaboration structure of climate change researchers. The IPCC report is prepared throug...

Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate for women in climate science: Women scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an authoritative and influential source of reports on climate change. The lead authors of IPCC reports include scientists from around the world, but questions have been raised about the dominance of specific disciplines in the report and the disproportionate number of scholars from the Global North. In this paper, we analyze the as-yet-une...