IPCC News Archive

Find past news on IIASA's involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The report is a comprehensive assessment of the current state of climate science, split up into three working groups that focus on the physical science of climate change (Working Group I), impacts adaptation, and vulnerability (Working Group II), and mitigation (Working Group III).

IIASA research feeding into the IPCC reports primarily focuses on the impacts and risks of climate change, as well as mitigation and adaptation. IIASA researchers  are major contributors to Working Groups II and III of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report, to be released in March 2014.

IPCC News: 2012

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

IPCC News: 2011

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



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Last edited: 19 March 2014

Nexus Blog

IIASA's Tony Patt writes about the implications of the new IPCC report for climate policy.

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