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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. [1] The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) set up the IPCC in 1988.
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (20 August 1940 – 13 February 2020 [1]) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015, during the fourth and fifth assessment cycles.
Al Gore and leader of IPCC Rajendra K. Pachauri on the balcony of Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 2007. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded in 1988) and United States former vice president, Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made ...
She contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and, in 2018, was named one of BBC's 100 Women. [5] In 1989, Sheinbaum joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). From 2000 to 2006, Sheinbaum served as secretary of the environment in the Federal District under Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who was then head of government.
About 3.3 to 3.6 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to the IPCC. ... World leaders meet every year to discuss their climate commitments.
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, [1] [2] six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. [3]
The president of the COP28 climate summit claimed there is “no science” that says the phase out of fossil fuels is required to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels ...
Hoesung Lee (Korean: 이회성; born December 31, 1945) is a South Korean economist who served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2015 to 2023. [1] He is professor in the economics of climate change , energy and sustainable development in the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology at ...