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IPCC Intergovernmental panel on climate change

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IPCCIntergovernmental panel on climate change

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Thesis question

• What is IPCC, and why are their recommendations on climate change so hard to implement?

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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.

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The Assessment Reports

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Recommendations • “It doesn’t cost the world to save the planet” –

Ottmar Edenhofer

• Fossil fuels• Carbon emissions(safe limit)• Rich Nations • Renewable energy

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Challenges

• 194 Nations to agree

• The more you wait, the more it will cost(Time)

• International effort

• Risks and uncertainties

• Money