Since the beginning of the industrial era, the atmosphere content in greenhouse gases has rapidly increased. In its 4th assessment report (AR4), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) points out the impact of human’s activities and its responsibility for a large part of the changes recently observed in the Earth's climate: increase in global temperature, sea level rise, melt...

As the global climate warms due to increasing greenhouse gases, the regional climate of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region will also change. This study presents the latest estimates of the expected changes in temperature, precipitation, tropical cyclone activity, and sea level. Changes in temperature and precipitation are derived from climate model simulations produced for the Fourth Asses...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that the global mean temperature had risen for the 20th century at the rate of 0.74oC per 100 years due to increasing green house gas. Climate change such as temperature, precipitation and tropical cyclone activity has been strongly related to agricultural production, water resource, and species diversity. Recent climate change has alrea...

The Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (GPG-LULUCF), published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is laid out to assist countries in preparing their greenhouse gas inventories by providing definitions and methodological advice especially for the sector land use, land-use change and forestry. This paper gives a short review of GPG-LULUCF, pres...

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...

Tackling climate change is a global challenge and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the organisation charged with communicating the risks, dangers and mechanisms underlying climate change to both policy makers and the general public. The IPCC has traditionally used words (e.g., ‘likely’) in place of numbers (‘70% chance’) to communicate risk and uncertainty information. Th...

Abstract This paper starts from the premise that international practices are neither stable nor universal but in fact product of time and space. It analyzes processes formalization change using case Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an intergovernmental institution producing regular assessment state knowledge climate change. The IPCC is particularly interesting because numerous ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has successfully produced four assessment reports since 1990 along with a number of special reports and greenhouse gas inventory guidelines. It has very rigorous and robust procedures and guidelines for preparing the assessment reports largely based on synthesis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature. IPCC has attracted controve...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a monopoly on the provision of climate policy advice at the international level and a strong market position in national policy advice. This may have been the intention of the founders of the IPCC. I argue that the IPCC has a natural monopoly, as a new entrant would have to invest time and effort over a longer period to perhaps match the reputat...