What is the IPCC's mission? The IPCC is not a research laboratory or a lobby (as some climate sceptics would have us believe). Its mission is "simply" to compile, summarise and present existing scientific knowledge. In short, one could say that the IPCC is conducting a giant press ...
The supreme body of the IPCC is the general assembly, where every member country has one vote (Samoa Islands therefore weight the same than the US). It’s the general assembly that sets up the working programme that the IPCC will follow later on, that is the subjects for which it will ...
A.A careful process of the world’s scientists to assess and summarize what is known about human-induced climate change.B.A body that has produced reports on climate change since 1990.C.The author of the Fifth Assessment Report on the current state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate ...
After analyzing data going back at least two decades on everything from air and ocean temperatures to the spread and retreat of wildlife, the IPCC asserts that this slow but steady warming has had an impact on no fewer than 420 physical processes and animals and plant species in all ...
How to lower the carbon footprint of solar panelsThe IPCC puts the carbon footprint of rooftop solar at 41 grams of CO2 equivalents per kWh of electricity produced. But that number is not etched in stone.In fact, there are many ways to reduce the carbon footprint of solar panels (and ...
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) was awarded the Nobel Price for its scientific work. Former Vice President Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his action agenda to raise worldwide knowledge and mediating strategies for addressing global change. Respected members of ...
The IPCC's scientists explain howclimate change has been fuelingextremeweather events and flooding, severeheat waves and droughts, loss andextinction of species, and themelting of ice sheets and rising of sea levels. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called the report a"code red for human...
The IPCC has published a comprehensive list of the atmospheric lifetime of the various CFCs and other greenhouse gases. Water vapour is a very effective absorber of heat energy in the air, but it does not accumulate in the atmosphere in the same way as the other greenhouse gases. This is ...
Earth is in a situation that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has called a “code red for humanity.” Since climate change is an urgent global problem, an aggressive solution must be adopted by citizens, governments, and industries everywhere. Some governments...
These are companies providing solutions to enable climate change mitigation. They are often found in industrial sectors and therefore may have reasonably high-carbon-intensive processes. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA) both provide lists of which...