The
IPCC
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. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ...
supplementary report of 1992 was published to contribute to the debate on the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in ...
at the 1992
Earth Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.
Earth Su ...
, held in
Rio de Janeiro
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.
The report updated and revised some of the data contained in the
IPCC First Assessment Report
The First Assessment Report (FAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was completed in 1990. It served as the basis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This report had effects not only on t ...
, and included six new
climate change scenarios
Climate change scenarios or socioeconomic scenarios are projections of future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used by analysts to assess future vulnerability to climate change. Scenarios and pathways are created by scientists to survey any long ...
, including an update of the 1990 reference scenario.
Recommendations by the IPCC Task Group on New Emission Scenarios
, ''IPCC'', published 2006-03-28, accessed 2007-04-24
The major conclusion was that research since 1990 did "not affect our fundamental understanding of the science of the greenhouse effect and either confirm or do not justify alteration of the major conclusions of the first IPCC scientific assessment". It noted that transient (time-dependent) simulations, which had been very preliminary in the FAR, were now improved, but did not include aerosol or ozone changes.
See also
* Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
In 2005, an international conference titled Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration and global warming and its effects. ...
– international conference (2005)
* Individual and political action on climate change
Individual action on climate change can include personal choices in many areas, such as diet, travel, household energy use, consumption of goods and services, and family size. Individuals can also engage in local and political advocacy around issu ...
* Business action on climate change
Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to climate change, and to influencing political decisions on climate change-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Major multinationals have played and to some ex ...
* Energy policy
* Energy conservation
* Global climate model
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* Precautionary principle
The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) is a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to innovations with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caut ...
* World energy resources and consumption
World energy supply and consumption is global production and preparation of fuel, generation of electricity, energy transport, and energy consumption. It is a basic part of economic activity. It includes heat, but not energy from food.
This art ...
Further reading
*Climate Change 1992: The IPCC Supplementary Report; editors: J.T. Houghton, B.A. Callander and S.K. Varney; Cambridge University Press; 1992
* IPCC Publications / Reports: 1992 Supplementary Reports (subpages with links to PDFs of sections):
The Supplementary Report to The IPCC Scientific Assessment
The Supplementary Report to The IPCC Impacts Assessment
The IPCC 1990 and 1992 Assessments
References
Climate change assessment and attribution
Environmental reports
1992 in the environment
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