IPCCIntergovernmental 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_on_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