Responding to the climate crisis - taking action on the IPCC 6th Assessment Report On 17 September 2021, the Grantham Institute hosted a follow-up to the Royal Meteorological Society's virtual event on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th assessment report (AR6). Controversy ...
Since 1988, the IPCC has published six comprehensive global Assessment Reports at five to seven year intervals. Each Assessment Report is composed of three WG reports and a Synthesis Report which are the focus of this paper. It has also published a number of Special Reports and Methodology ...
The 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC recognizes that urban areas present ...32 Shares How the US Can Speed its Shift to Climate-Smart Infrastructure By Dan Lashof and Lori Bird on May 10, 2022 The latest findings from the IPCC paint a grim picture: Despite some signs of progress, the...
The newly published 2014 IPCC AR5 summary report bemoaned the recent significant growth increase of GHGs. The IPCC established the per year growth, prior to 2000, to be at a 1.3% rate. The IPCC AR5 reports that GHG growth has now jumped to 2.2% per year through 2010 (see more detailsh...
A brief summary in press release style of my new paper (written in the third person) One of the most important conclusions of the recent 6thAssessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) was to reduce the uncertainty in estimates of climate sensitivity to doubli...
So, what next for the IPCC in terms of its future assessment reports?Sophie Yeowrites:The panel, set up in 1988, will be tackling the questions of a typical midlife crisis: what’s my purpose? Am I going about it in the right way? Does anyone really care about me?
Building on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) review of how to make its Assessment Reports (ARs) more accessible in the future, the research reported here assesses the extent to which the ARs are a useful tool through which scientif