IPCC
Intergovernmental panel on climate
change
Thesis question
• What is IPCC, and why are their recommendations
on climate change so hard to implement?
What is IPCC?
• WHO and the UN- Environment program
• International institution, 1988
• 194 nations are members
• Changes in the Earth's climate.
• Scientific, technical and socio-economic
information
• Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
The Assessment Reports
Recommendations
• “It doesn’t cost the world to save the planet” –
Ottmar Edenhofer
• Fossil fuels
• Carbon emissions(safe limit)
• Rich Nations
• Renewable energy
Challenges
• 194 Nations to agree
• The more you wait,
the more it will cost
(Time)
• International effort
• Risks and uncertainties
• Money
Sources
• http://www.ipcc.ch/
• http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNs_klimapanel
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_o
n_Climate_Change
• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09
/why-hard-stop-climate-change
• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/13
/averting-climate-change-catastrophe-is-affordable-
says-ipcc-report-un

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