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IPCC 4th Assessment Report
Brussels, 1 February 2007. GreenFacts will publish clear, faithful summaries of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4) on www.greenfacts.org in the course of 2007. GreenFacts was invited to be present at the Sessions of the three IPCC Working Groups, and intends to rapidly summarise each Working Group’s SPM (Summary for Policymakers) after its release. “There are a lot of signs and evidence in this report which clearly establish not only the fact that climate change is taking place, but also that it really is human activity that is influencing that change,” said IPCC chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri at a news briefing in Paris this week. “[The report] embodies substantial new research, it addresses gaps that existed in our knowledge earlier, it has reduced existing uncertainties.” The findings of the AR4 build on those of the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) published in 2001. A clear and faithful summary of the TAR is available at www.greenfacts.org/studies/climate_change/ in English, German, Spanish, and French. It is a useful tool for comparing the two assessments. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 by WMO and UNEP with a mission to assess whether climate change is caused by human action and to look at options to mitigate it. The three working groups of the IPCC that will publish their reports in February, April, and May this year will look at the science and the impacts of climate change, as well as mankind’s option to mitigate climate change. For information on other climate-change related topics such as Arctic Climate Change, Desertification, Ecosystem Change, please consult the GreenFacts website on www.greenfacts.org. All the information GreenFacts provides on its website is based on international authoritative scientific consensus documents. About GreenFacts asbl/vzw GreenFacts asbl/vzw is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes faithful on-line summaries of scientific consensus documents on environment and health matters in several languages on www.greenfacts.org. These summaries are presented as questions and answers in three levels of detail, making the scientific consensus easily accessible to non-experts. Subscribe to our RSS Feed For further details visit www.greenfacts.org or contact Sandra Nebe
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