Today the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing what may become a pivotal document of human progress—or lack thereof, if we don’t heed its warnings. It’s a “synthesis” report, ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted that its worst-case carbon emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, is ...
Established in 1988, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been bringing out climate change assessment reports on a periodic basis. So far, it has produced six assessment ...
According to the latest IPCC report, to meet the goal of capping temperature rise at 1.5°C, emissions will need to be cut by nearly half by 2030. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash) The average global surface ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. The IPCC is an international body that periodically ...
Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse ...
The U.S. is skipping the global meeting, raising concerns about delaying a sweeping science assessment on the current state of climate change. The Trump administration’s abrupt retreat from global ...
IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is a group of scientists charged by the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme to assess global climate change. Its mission is to ...
A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb planet-warming emissions, in its projections.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 as an expert panel to guide the drafting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ratified in Rio de ...