I’m currently in Istanbul, Türkiye, with my colleague Adam Markham, for the opening session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle. While the global understanding of climate change is well-established, the world’s response remains sluggish. It’s essential that as policies and public awareness evolve, the science keeps pace, offering the latest policy-relevant insights to effectively combat climate change.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is an official observer organization of the IPCC, and we traveled here because decisions are being made about the structure, topics, and processes that will guide the 7th assessment cycle, which is just getting underway.
Established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme under the…
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