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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most significant global assessment bodies established, and it provides the most authoritative and influential assessments of climate change knowledge. This book examines the history and politics of the organisation, and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. Developing a new methodology, this book focuses on the actors, activities, and forms of authority affecting the IPCC's constructions of climate change. It describes how social, economic, and political dynamics influence all aspects of the organisation and its work. The book contributes to understanding the place of science in politics and politics in science, and offers important insights for designing new knowledge bodies for global environmental agreement-making. It is indispensable for students and researchers in environmental studies, international relations, and political science, as well as policymakers and anyone interested in the IPCC.

Climatic changes. --- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Résolument à contre-courant dans le débat climatique, l'auteur de cet essai soutient que le GIEC (Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat) est une imposture consistant à présenter comme scientifique un projet essentiellement politique, et que cette imposture est la plus formidable de la science moderne par la fulgurance et le caractère planétaire de son succès. L'essai se lit également comme une audacieuse leçon de rigueur administrée par la philosophie à la science. S'opposant aux partisans du GIEC, mais se démarquant également de ce qu'il appelle les gribouillages de Claude Allègre, l'auteur suggère que l'on distingue le débat au sein du GIEC, qui relève des sciences exactes, et le débat sur le GIEC, qui est de nature épistémologique, c'est-à-dire institutionnelle, logique, de méthode.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change --- Climatic changes --- Climat --- International cooperation --- Changements --- Coopération internationale --- Science --- Philosophy

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Climatic changes --- Greenhouse gas mitigation --- Government policy --- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. --- Greenhouse gases --- Science

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become a hugely influential institution. It is the authoritative voice on the science on climate change, and an exemplar of an intergovernmental science-policy interface. This book introduces the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence. Discussing its internal workings and operating principles, it shows how IPCC assessments are produced and how consensus is reached between scientific and policy experts from different institutions, countries, and social groups. A variety of practices and discourses - epistemic, diplomatic, procedural, communicative - that make the institution function are critically assessed, allowing the reader to learn from its successes and failures. This volume is the go-to reference for researchers studying or active within the IPCC, as well as invaluable for students concerned with global environmental problems and climate governance. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change --- Environmental policy --- Climate change mitigation --- Climatic changes --- Evaluation. --- International cooperation. --- Government policy. --- Climate mitigation --- Climatic mitigation --- Mitigation of climate change --- Environmental protection --- Mitigation --- IPCC --- Intergovernmental panel on climate change

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It is widely recognised that climate change poses significant serious threats to sustained economic growth and agricultural development, poverty reduction, food security and political stability globally. Nowhere are these challenges more marked than in Africa where two-thirds of all available land is classified either as desert or dry land, in relation to which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013) has classified the continent as the most vulnerable to climate change variability. This anthology is a product of a call from OSSREA to collate evidence based researches in a book in a bid to assess how far countries in eastern and southern Africa are implementing the UNFCCC, Rio+20, Agenda 21 and other global and Africa-wide decisions concerning the need to address climate change. -- Back cover.

Climatic changes --- Sustainable development --- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. --- Africa, Eastern --- Africa, Southern --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions