The
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to "provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies". The World M ...
supplementary report of 1992 was published to contribute to the debate on the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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at the 1992
Earth Summit
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, 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 the ...
, and included six new
climate change scenarios, 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
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– international conference (2005)
* Individual and political action on climate change
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* Business action on climate change
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* Energy policy
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* Energy conservation
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* Global climate model
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* Precautionary principle
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* World energy resources and consumption
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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
1992 documents
Climate change assessment and attribution
Environmental reports
1992 in the environment
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