Pleased to be Contributing Authors in Nobel Prize Winning IPCC Panel

2007-10-12
Several IESG researchers have served as authors on WGIII of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose reports, over the past two decades, have confirmed the connection between human activities and global warming.  The IPCC shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, it was reported in Norway on Friday, October 12, 2007.  

Jayant Sathaye, Lynn Price, Willy Makundi (retired), and Ernst Worrell are all IESG members who have served as lead authors on various IPCC reports. IESG researchers Stephane de la Rue du Can and Aleksandra Novikova contributed to the analysis. Other members of Environmental Energy Technology Division Mark Levine and Evan Mills, have also participated in the research done by the IPCC.

The IPCC was created almost 20 years ago to response to growing concern about the risk of anthropogenic climate change. The General Assembly of the United Nations asked the two UN bodies most engaged in the issue, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, to set up this Panel to provide balanced, objective policy advice.

The First Assessment Report of 1990 was submitted to the UN General Assembly, which responded by formally recognizing that climate change required global action and launched the negotiations that led to the adoption of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

In November 2007, the IPCC Plenary will meet in Valencia, Spain, to adopt the fourth and final volume of its "Climate Change 2007" assessment report. This short and extremely readable "Synthesis Report", explicitly targeted to policymakers, represents the final step in integrating and presenting the enormous amounts of scientific information contained in the three volumes released earlier this year. The Synthesis Report will be launched on 17 November.


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