Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts.

Numerous IIASA scientists have been lead authors and reviewers of the IPCC’s reports—a contribution far greater than some of the world’s most prestigious universities. But not surprising. IIASA’s approach of merging interdisciplinary and international research ensures its scientists are well experienced to provide expertise in understanding problems such as climate change that also crosses national and disciplinary boundaries. Indeed IIASA’s pioneering research into climate change in the 1970s and 1980s played a key role in establishing the IPCC.  

IIASA has worked with the IPCC in the following areas:

MESSAGE-MAGICC

A model to estimate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate system. More

Representative Concentration Pathways Database

A database with scenarios from the integrated assessment community to expedite climate change assessments More

Informing the International Community

Since its beginnings in the midst of the Cold War, IIASA has been a natural convener of and contributor to integrated international scientific assessment, working with international scientists from differing disciplines to provide robust scientific information to decision makers. More

ENE and the IPCC 

ENE scientists have made leading contributions to IPCC reports for years. These include all Assessment Reports since the second, and several Special Reports. More

News items showing recent collaborations between IIASA and IPCC:

IPCC Special Report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events (SREX)

The Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Nikolaus Berlakovich and IIASA’s Reinhard Mechler will today, 8 May, brief international press on the findings of the IPCC SREX report, specifically as they relate to Europe, Austria and Africa. More

IPCC Special Report on Extreme events (SREX) launched

An IPCC Special Report calls for increased efforts to help communities adapt to the growing risks of extreme weather events linked to human-induced climate change. More

Details underpinning global climate scenarios published

A Special Issue of Climatic Change, co-edited by IIASA’s Keywan Riahi, outlines four new scenarios of future emissions of GHGs, air pollutants, and land-use change, which will be used by the climate modeling community to develop the next generation of climate simulations. More

IPCC Special Report on renewable energy sources

IIASA’s Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, Yu Nagai and several GEA Lead Authors are among contributors to the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy, the Summary of which was approved by governments at the 11th session of IPCC Working Group III, 5-8 May. More

IPCC report summary: Extreme events increase with climate change

A new IPCC Special Report detects growing risks from extreme climate and weather events linked to human-induced climate change. More

Last edited: 01 September 2012